Fedora 15 Wifi "firmware missing" HP mini 210-1000

[speedhunt3r]

Hi,

I just installed Fedora 15 on my HP mini 210-1000, everything is working fine except my wifi is not up. It says firmware missing. How do i fix this problem?

Previously I used to have Ubuntu 11.04 on it and wifi worked fine, but I need Fedora as i am using .rpm based applications. So please assist me in getting my Wifi up!

lscpi gives this:

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

*edit* sorry, found a solution in another post on the forum : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=249364

[Sagitter]

Configure RPMFusion:

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm 
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Then:

yum update
yum install broadcom-wl akmod-wl b43-openfwwf
reboot

Fedora will be rebooted.

[speedhunt3r]

Sorry! But that post didn't really fix the problem! After installing

sudo yum install akmod-wl broadcom-wl b43-openfwwf

and a reboot, my wifi is not even showing up in the network manager.

dmesg is:
http://pastebin.com/WqcXT7yA

[stoat]

yum update
yum install broadcom-wl akmod-wl b43-openfwwf
reboot

Hello Sagitter,

Just so you will know (and for the record), b43-openfwwf is firmware used by the b43 driver module to support a few Broadcom chipsets of which BCM4312 is not one. To use the b43 driver with BCM4312, firmware has to be extracted from a proprietary driver source object file.

The Broadcom 802.11 STA Linux driver also supports the BCM4312. To install the akmod version of it, merely installing akmod-wl will install everything needed including broadcom-wl. To install the kmod version of it, I still recommend specifying in the yum command either kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE depending on the running kernel. Specifying broadcom-wl with yum also installs the kmod version and nowadays probably will install the right version for the running kernel. But at one time it did not, that's why I started recommending kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE instead of broadcom-wl for the yum command when the kmod version is desired.

[speedhunt3r]

Hello Sagitter,

Just so you will know (and for the record), b43-openfwwf is firmware used by the b43 driver module to support a few Broadcom chipsets of which BCM4312 is not one. To use the b43 driver with BCM4312, firmware has to be extracted from a proprietary driver source object file.

The Broadcom 802.11 STA Linux driver does support the BCM4312. To install the akmod version of it, merely installing akmod-wl will install everything needed including broadcom-wl. To install the kmod version of it, I still recommend installing either kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE depending on the running kernel. Specifying broadcom-wl with yum installs the kmod version and nowadays probably will install the right version for the running kernel. But at one time it did not, that's why I started recommending kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE instead of broadcom-wl for the yum command.

Hey... can you explain that in simpler terms? If after installing those drivers my wifi isn't working, i should try kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE? won't the multiple drivers conflict if i do that?

---------- Post added at 09:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 AM ----------

Ooh....it worked thanks stoat

[Sagitter]

Hello Sagitter,

Just so you will know (and for the record), b43-openfwwf is firmware used by the b43 driver module to support a few Broadcom chipsets of which BCM4312 is not one. To use the b43 driver with BCM4312, firmware has to be extracted from a proprietary driver source object file.

The Broadcom 802.11 STA Linux driver also supports the BCM4312. To install the akmod version of it, merely installing akmod-wl will install everything needed including broadcom-wl. To install the kmod version of it, I still recommend specifying in the yum command either kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE depending on the running kernel. Specifying broadcom-wl with yum also installs the kmod version and nowadays probably will install the right version for the running kernel. But at one time it did not, that's why I started recommending kmod-wl or kmod-wl-PAE instead of broadcom-wl for the yum command when the kmod version is desired.

You are right. Maybe I've being not much clear.

Kernel-PAE for a netbook ?
kmod-wl modules for lastest kernel 2.6.40 could not be available (i've checked now, it is in repository).

I'm sorry for my superficiality.


@speedhunt3r

If you use a kernel PAE ($uname -r), must install a kmod-PAE.

[speedhunt3r]

is there a netbook edition for fedora? I just downloaded the normal desktop iso it came with that kernel.

[jimpm]

Have you recently updated software. The update to kernel 2.6.40 broke broadcom wifi on my HP laptop. Even manually loading the wl mod won't bring up wifi. Rolling back to 2.6.38 fixes everything. Anybody else notice this? And if you did any fixes? Thanks.
Jim
PS Yum says akmod-wl is latest version and lsmod shows wl loaded still no wifi.

addendum: Found in another post modprobe -r bcma then echo "blacklist bcma" >> /etc/modprobe.d/Broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf
This worked well for me.

[bbfuller]

Hello jimpm

Post #10 in this thread usually fixes it:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=267852

[JollyTb]

Have you recently updated software. The update to kernel 2.6.40 broke broadcom wifi on my HP laptop. Even manually loading the wl mod won't bring up wifi. Rolling back to 2.6.38 fixes everything. Anybody else notice this? And if you did any fixes? Thanks.
Jim
PS Yum says akmod-wl is latest version and lsmod shows wl loaded still no wifi.

addendum: Found in another post modprobe -r bcma then echo "blacklist bcma" >> /etc/modprobe.d/Broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf
This worked well for me.

I attempted the addendum. When I run the code: modprobe -r bcma I'm getting the a message that says the BCMA module is in use.

When I attempt to run the second code beginning at echo, I get an error saying no such command exists.


Also, I was unable to install the drivers using the Yum code, and am not sure what I am doing wrong. I'm new to Fedora and trying to figure this all out. Please let me know, in as much detail as possible, the steps to fix this.

[stevea]

You need to be root to execute those commands, and o need to uncheck the "enable wireless" on NetworkManager (right click the icon & select) before you unload the driver.


(disable NM wireless then ....)
su -
<rootpasswd>
modprobe -r bcma
exit

and

su -
<rootpasswd>
echo "blacklist bcma" >> /etc/modprobe.d/Broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf
exit