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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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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