Fedora 18 /KDE

Had Wireless working after Install but did update and it quit working.

I have kmod-wl kernel-3.6.10-4, working in kernel-3.6.10-4.

The driver in lspci for wireless is b43-pci-bridge, but lsmod shows a b43legacy being loaded.
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[tom@localhost ~]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

em1 no wireless extensions.




Ethernet eth0 Is Working
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02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 8126
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at faff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tg3



Wireless Card Not Working

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02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge




$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipt_MASQUERADE 12761 1
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 12586 0
nf_conntrack_broadcast 12488 1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns
ip6table_mangle 12621 1
be2iscsi 76220 0
ip6t_REJECT 12827 2
iscsi_boot_sysfs 15122 1 be2iscsi
bnx2i 49543 0
nf_conntrack_ipv6 14078 26
cnic 57574 1 bnx2i
nf_defrag_ipv6 13709 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
uio 14413 1 cnic
cxgb4i 32075 0
cxgb4 97513 1 cxgb4i
cxgb3i 28034 0
iptable_nat 13139 1
nf_nat 24501 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
cxgb3 130967 1 cxgb3i
iptable_mangle 12616 1
mdio 13244 1 cxgb3
nf_conntrack_ipv4 14458 25 nf_nat,iptable_nat
libcxgbi 54562 2 cxgb3i,cxgb4i
ib_iser 32692 0
nf_defrag_ipv4 12602 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_conntrack 12665 48
rdma_cm 37085 1 ib_iser
nf_conntrack 72003 8 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,ipt_MASQUERADE,nf_nat,xt_conntrack,nf_conntrack_broadcast,iptable_nat,nf_con ntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6
ebtable_filter 12716 0
ib_addr 13513 1 rdma_cm
ebtables 21316 1 ebtable_filter
iw_cm 13753 1 rdma_cm
bnep 18864 2
ib_cm 36713 1 rdma_cm
bluetooth 275642 7 bnep
ip6table_filter 12712 1
ip6_tables 17745 2 ip6table_filter,ip6table_mangle
ib_sa 23966 2 rdma_cm,ib_cm
ib_mad 37175 2 ib_cm,ib_sa
ib_core 61976 6 rdma_cm,ib_cm,ib_sa,iw_cm,ib_mad,ib_iser
iscsi_tcp 18016 0
libiscsi_tcp 19468 4 cxgb3i,cxgb4i,iscsi_tcp,libcxgbi
libiscsi 44825 8 libiscsi_tcp,bnx2i,cxgb3i,cxgb4i,be2iscsi,iscsi_tcp,ib_iser,libcxgbi
scsi_transport_iscsi 46616 8 bnx2i,be2iscsi,iscsi_tcp,ib_iser,libcxgbi,libiscsi
snd_intel8x0m 18424 0
snd_intel8x0 33135 2
snd_ac97_codec 104813 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus 12631 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq 54700 0
snd_seq_device 13825 1 snd_seq
snd_pcm 81512 3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
b43legacy 103935 0
snd_page_alloc 13710 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm,snd_intel8x0m
mac80211 471137 1 b43legacy
snd_timer 23743 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 63247 11 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0m
ppdev 17364 0
iTCO_wdt 13257 0
soundcore 14124 1 snd
cfg80211 170721 2 mac80211,b43legacy
parport_pc 27404 0
dell_laptop 17162 0
iTCO_vendor_support 13244 1 iTCO_wdt
dcdbas 14365 1 dell_laptop
rfkill 20452 3 cfg80211,bluetooth
lpc_ich 16926 0
microcode 18725 0
parport 39144 2 ppdev,parport_pc
joydev 17162 0
uinput 17305 0
radeon 820581 2
i2c_algo_bit 13066 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 43550 1 radeon
ttm 62706 1 radeon
ssb 55249 1 b43legacy
drm 215930 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
mmc_core 97635 1 ssb
yenta_socket 40363 0
tg3 138796 0
i2c_core 28450 4 drm,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
video 18505 0
sunrpc 215746 1

with kernel updates you need to reinstall kernel-mod drivers

Is this what you referring to, they are already installed.

I'm beginning to believe they don't have a driver for this old Broadcom card anymore.

uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.6.10-4.fc18.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 11 18:24:49 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


kernel-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686
kernel-modules-extra-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686

fedora is also notorious for being early on the kernel updates and very LATE on driver updates that depend on a version of the kernel ( kmods)

in the next 3 or so days there might be a update to the driver for that kernel

if you boot into the old kernel ( fedora keeps 3 or 5 old versions ) dose the wi-fi card work

I was in latest kernel 3.10.10-100 and went back to 3.6.10-4 with same results .

I have yum-versionlock setup to no longer upgrade to any kernel above 3.10.10-100 .

It all starts here;

http://fedorasolved.org/mobile/fc-wi...3xx-yum-extras

Prepare to do a lot of reading.
I have track down the Firmware driver for BCM4306 ver.2