Broadcom wireless on Fedora 13 via kmod-wl issue

[Thomas Spura]

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