I originally posted this to the user mailing list, but as I thought about
it, I realized that this might be something that needs to be brought to the
attention of the developers before Fedora 15 ships.
My original message:
I just got an Acer Aspire One and threw Fedora 15 Alpha on it. This
is a good thing as, according to
linuxwireless.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211 says that my wifi chip is
in the 2.6.38 kernel. That page tells me to d/l some firmware files
to a specific directory. I went there and those files are already
there. But I don't have any wireless configured.
The system only sees em1 and lo if I do an iwconfig and em1 is the ethernet.
lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]
so the system can see the hardware. Why is it not loading? Is there
another step I'm missing?
Thanks!
Which prompted the following reply on the list:
Hi,
There is possibly an small problem - what relates to the kmod - akmod
naming difference. I could help you, but tell me the results of
'ifconfig', 'rfkill' (you have install that, and need an list param),
and 'lsmod', 'rpm -qa | grep wl' . Pack that into an txt, and send it
over me. If I have right, then we have to report an dependency
problem.
Thanks,
Zoltan
Which is what made me think the devs needed to see it. Here's the output
that he asked me to generate:
em1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1C:75:08:BF:3C:5A
inet addr:192.168.1.17 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::1e75:8ff:febf:3c5a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2095 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1569 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2051696 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:211388 (206.4 KiB)
Interrupt:45
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1380 (1.3 KiB) TX bytes:1380 (1.3 KiB)
rfkill now
rfkill list wlan
rfkill list wifi
lsmod now
Module Size Used by
tcp_lp 2183 0
sunrpc 195388 1
8021q 18707 0
garp 6087 1 8021q
stp 1951 1 garp
llc 4716 2 garp,stp
cpufreq_ondemand 9466 2
acpi_cpufreq 7001 1
freq_table 3963 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
mperf 1505 1 acpi_cpufreq
ip6t_REJECT 4048 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 7978 1
nf_defrag_ipv6 9531 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ip6table_filter 1695 1
ip6_tables 16834 1 ip6table_filter
snd_hda_codec_realtek 325024 1
uvcvideo 54609 0
snd_hda_intel 23694 2
snd_hda_codec 80822 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6368 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq 52438 0
videodev 63426 1 uvcvideo
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 6697 1 videodev
microcode 18117 0
snd_seq_device 6001 1 snd_seq
snd_pcm 78769 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
i2c_i801 9213 0
iTCO_wdt 11480 0
iTCO_vendor_support 2634 1 iTCO_wdt
snd_timer 19593 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
joydev 9635 0
atl1c 30919 0
snd 62654 12
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6299 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7431 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sparse_keymap 3302 0
rfkill 16552 0
wmi 9105 0
uinput 7419 0
ipv6 282007 33 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6
i915 346239 2
drm_kms_helper 27243 1 i915
drm 187648 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 4950 1 i915
i2c_core 25468 6
videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video 12432 1 i915
rpm command now
python-iwlib-0.1-6.fc15.x86_64
iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-2.fc15.noarch
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-5.fc15.noarch
iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-2.fc15.noarch
iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-3.fc15.noarch
iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1-2.fc15.noarch
iwl6000g2a-firmware-17.168.5.1-2.fc15.noarch
iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-1.fc15.noarch
iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-3.fc15.noarch
iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-2.fc15.noarch
Thanks,
So let me know what info you need to get this resolved.
Thanks a lot!
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