Broadcom BCM4312 not working after updating the kernel

Athmane Madjoudj athmanem at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 08:17:42 UTC 2009


On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/26/2009 11:45 AM, Chris W Tucker wrote:
>>
>> Happened to me yesterday,
>> I uninstalled drivers, then reinstalled through yum.
>> It has worked since.
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com
>> <mailto:ssh.fedora at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Dear all
>>
>>    I've recently updated my kernel from *Linux
>>    2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 *to *Linux  2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64*,
>>    after that my wireless Brodcom BCM4312 is not working , on old
>>    kernel it was working fine ... if I boot into old kernel it works
>>    fine without any problem
>>
>>    Does anyone faced this problem .....   how to solve this issue ..
>>    Help is appreciated
>>
>>
>>    Regards
>>
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> I've done it .....but not working for me :-(
>
> Please tell me one thing .... which driver you are using for Brodcom BCM4312
> form the following
>
> 1) broadcom-wl  5.10.91.9.3-1fc12 (noarch)
>
> 2) ndiswrapper  1.54-2.fc11
>
> or
>
> 3) Broadcom provided  driver  802.11 Linux STA driver  ( downloaded from
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php )
>
>
>
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In my case i have a Broadcom BCM4312  (HP Notebook), it works with the
following packages (don't forget to power-on the wifi):

kmod-wl-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.6.i686
kmod-wl-5.10.91.9.3-3.fc12.10.i686
broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9.3-1.fc12.noarch

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