bcm43xx and kernel-2.6.22.5-76.fc7

Tom Weniger trweniger at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 22:23:30 UTC 2007


On 9/19/07, Jeff Stewart <bvmunix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone successfully using the bcm43xx driver and kernel-2.6.22.5-76.fc7?
> Everything works fine for me with all kernels up to now, but not the latest
> one.  lsmod shows the proper modules loaded, but the wireless interface
> doesn't exist.  I also don't see any of the "SoftMAC: Scanning ..." type
> messages in /var/log/messages.  In fact, the only thing that shows up in
> messages is:
>
> Sep 19 17:26:25 vapid kernel: bcm43xx driver
>
> Nothing else..
>
> I wish I had more debug-type of info, but that's all I get.  My wireless
> adapter info is:
>
> 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev
> 03)
>
> Like I said earlier, I've had no problems with the bcm43xx driver up til the
> -76 kernel.
>
> TIA
> --
> Jeff Stewart
> --
Greetings Jeff,

I have the same BCM chipset which works fine with the latest kernel
(-76). Have you tried to reconfigure wlan0? What does ifconfig output?

-- 
Virtually,
Tom Weniger




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