New kernel update breaks wireless

Andrew Robinson awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com
Tue Aug 14 04:36:55 UTC 2007


Martin Marques wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
>>
>> bcm43xx uses 3.x firmware.  (FC6 does not have bcm43xx-mac80211.)
>>
>> File a bug?
> 
> kernel 2.6.22 comes with bcm43xx-mac80211, but I don't have a FC6 at 
> hand to check it out.
> 
> Andrew what does "locate bcm43xx-mac80211" give you?
> 
/lib/modules/2.6.22.1-32.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-mac80211.ko

(Sorry to take so long to get back. Been tied up so I've been booting 
from the 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 kernel.)

So does this mean I have a bug?

Thanks!

Andrew




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