On 01.07.2014 19:03, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
Updating to the new kernel temporarily knocked out my wireless
connectivity on my Dell Inspiron 1545.
That is, until I executed:
# modprobe b43
Or, since I am a member of "wheel":
$ sudo modprobe b43
A few seconds after I issued that command, wireless was enabled, and the
connection I had long been using, re-activated itself.
Question: must I execute "modprobe xxx" with every kernel upgrade?
(By the way: it turns out that module "wl" is not necessary.)
Temlakos
I was hoping that you understood what is written in
"Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card for Dell Inspiron 1545: How to Drive It!"
thread,
including links provided.
"wl" is the original *proprietary* Broadcom's wireless module.
"b43" is *intree* Broadcom B43 wireless module.
If both are installed and unblacklisted, they are competing for the same device.
So if everything works OK with "b43", then you can safely remove "wl":
# yum erase broadcom-wl
So there is no need to tamper with the blacklist commands in the configuration
files[1].
Besides, with this auto-loading a kernel module shouldn't be a problem.
poma
[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Switching_between_drivers
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