Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sun Aug 30 22:23:22 UTC 2009


Henrik Frisk wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com 
> <mailto:mrsam at courier-mta.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Henrik Frisk writes:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I'm running FC11 on a MacBook Pro. After the latest kernel
>         updates (to 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64) I cannot connect to
>         my wireless router anymore. If I boot up in the previous kernel
>         it works fine. Any ideas on how I can fix this? The wireless
>         interface on this laptop is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4322.
> 
> 
>     No problems on this laptop with BCM4311 and the latest kernel.
> 
>     Generally, a blanket statement that something doesn't work offers
>     very little usable information to work with. At the very least, you
>     should gather some preliminary information yourself, such as:
> 
> 
> Right, sorry about that.
>  
> 
> 
>     1) the output of lsmod, to determine whether the b43 kernel module
>     is loaded.'
> 
>  
> It wasn't but it didn't change anything to add it. Here's the output of 
> 'lsmod | grep b43'
> b43                   127352  0
> ssb                    39572  1 b43
> mac80211              199632  1 b43
> cfg80211               37088  2 b43,mac80211
> input_polldev           3952  2 b43,applesmc
> 
> 
>     2) various bits of information from /var/log/messages. kernel
>     messages from early in the boot process would report whether or not
>     the kernel module was loaded, and if not why not. Or may be you have
>     some error messages from NetworkManager, or wpa_supplicant, that
>     point towards a clue.
> 
> 
> Here's the output of 'cat messages | grep Network':
> [__snip__]

> It finds the access point but fails at connecting..
> 
> thanks for any help,
> 
Did you have the kmod-wl module installed before?

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