Broadcom wireless on Fedora 13 via kmod-wl issue

[Valent Turkovic]

After removing kernel-pae and updating everything now works.

Cheers!

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Thomas Spura <tomspur at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:28 +0200 schrieb Valent Turkovic:
>> After installing kmod-wl in Fedora 13 I still get no wireless on my HP
>> Mini 5101 with Broadcom wireless.
>> Under Fedora 12 and kmod-wl package everything works ok.
>>
>> Here are the issues I see:
>>
>>
>> # modinfo wl
>> ERROR: modinfo: could not find module wl
>>
>>
>> # insmod /lib/modules/2.6.33.2-57.fc13.i686/extra/wl/wl.ko
>> insmod: error inserting
>> '/lib/modules/2.6.33.2-57.fc13.i686/extra/wl/wl.ko': -1 Invalid module
>> format
>>
>>
>> # modinfo /lib/modules/2.6.33.2-57.fc13.i686/extra/wl/wl.ko
>> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.33.2-57.fc13.i686/extra/wl/wl.ko
>> license:        MIXED/Proprietary
>> srcversion:     74F8D9437CF7F1FCB427C79
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004727sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004357sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004353sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004329sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004328sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004315sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004313sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004312sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004311sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> depends:        lib80211
>> vermagic:       2.6.33.2-57.fc13.i686 SMP mod_unload 686
>> parm:           oneonly:int
>> parm:           piomode:int
>> parm:           instance_base:int
>> parm:           nompc:int
>> parm:           name:string
>>
>>
>> Is wl module working for you?
>
> Yes, but I updated a bit strange ;)
>
> I updated to F-13 a while ago, and first compiled the wl driver on my
> own from source. Later I tried akmod-wl (and *not* kmod-wl!!)
>
> It's works perfectly...
>
> $ modinfo wl
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.34-0.28.rc3.git3.fc14.x86_64/extra/wl/wl.ko
> license:        MIXED/Proprietary
> srcversion:     74F8D9437CF7F1FCB427C79
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004727sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004357sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004353sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d0000432Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004329sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004328sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004315sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004313sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004312sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004311sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> depends:        lib80211
> vermagic:       2.6.34-0.28.rc3.git3.fc14.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
> parm:           oneonly:int
> parm:           piomode:int
> parm:           instance_base:int
> parm:           nompc:int
> parm:           name:string
>
>
>



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