[elrepo] [elrepo-devel] Broken kmod-compat-wireless package

[Roy Bonser]

That did the trick, thanks!

dmesg:
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain,
max_eirp)
cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:   (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:   (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4331 WLAN found (core revision 29)
b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 9, Type 7, Revision 1
b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2059, Revision 0
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain,
max_eirp)
cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)
cfg80211:   (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:   (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:   (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)

b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized
b43-phy0 debug: QoS enabled
b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready


The wireless shows up in the Network Manager applet now and I was able to
join the network.

  --Roy

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 14/08/12 09:59, Phil Perry wrote:
>
>> On 14/08/12 00:32, Roy Bonser wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the info. I saw the error, I just wasn't sure it was actually
>>> looking in /lib/firmware since the file exists there.
>>>
>>> Here is the info you asked for:
>>>
>>> # lsmod | grep firmware
>>> compat_firmware_class 7614 1 b43
>>> compat 26336 6
>>> b43,mac80211,cfg80211,bcma,**ssb,compat_firmware_class
>>>
>>> # lsmod | grep b43
>>> b43 395120 0
>>> mac80211 286661 1 b43
>>> cfg80211 193492 2 b43,mac80211
>>> bcma 29837 1 b43
>>> ssb 59632 1 b43
>>> compat_firmware_class 7614 1 b43
>>> compat 26336 6
>>> b43,mac80211,cfg80211,bcma,**ssb,compat_firmware_class
>>> mmc_core 77140 3 b43,ssb,sdhci
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time on this.
>>>
>>> --Roy
>>>
>>>
>> Roy, Nick,
>>
>> Thanks for your time and effort testing this.
>>
>> My initial thought is that compat_firmware_class might be causing the
>> issue. I assume if you try to unload it (modprobe -r
>> compat_firmware_class, it unloads the too??
>>
>> If either of you had working wireless _before _ the 6.3 kernel update,
>> could you possibly roll back to the previous working version
>> kmod-compat-wireless and kernel, and show the above output again from a
>> working system (e.g, lsmod | grep 'b43\|firmware')
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
> Hi both,
>
> Sorry, scratch that for the moment!
>
> I think we might need some updated udev rules for the new
> compat_firmware_class module.
>
> Can you download 50-compat_firmware.rules and compat_firmware.sh from here:
>
> http://www.elrepo.org/people/**phil/compat/udev/<http://www.elrepo.org/people/phil/compat/udev/>
>
> and install to:
>
> /lib/udev/compat_firmware.sh
> /lib/udev/rules.d/50-compat_**firmware.rules
>
> File permissions/ownership should be set as follows:
>
> $ ll /lib/udev/compat_firmware.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 994 Aug  7 22:49 /lib/udev/compat_firmware.sh
>
> $ ll /lib/udev/rules.d/50-compat_**firmware.rules
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193 Aug  7 22:49 /lib/udev/rules.d/50-compat_**
> firmware.rules
>
> reboot and test.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Phil
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