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

[Phil Perry]

On 14/08/12 13:46, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 14/08/12 13:17, Roy Bonser wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Brilliant!
>
> Thanks Roy, I'll get updated packages built that add the missing udev
> rules.
>
> Many thanks for your testing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil

Folks,

Sorry for the delay - I was waiting to see if upstream were going to 
release a stable 3.5.2 release, but there's no sign of it coming so I've 
patched the last 3.5.1 release with the latest upstream patches for RHEL 
support.

So, we have some new packages syncing to the mirrors in the testing 
repository that should hopefully fix all issues that I'm aware of on RHEL6.3

kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.1-1.sn.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.1-1.sn.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

To update, please run:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update kmod-compat-wireless

and reboot.

Some things to test / confirm please, if you are able:

1. These packages should *not* load the compat_firmware_class module 
(lsmod should show this)

2. The updates udev rules we manually installed should not now be needed 
so please remove them before testing:

/lib/udev/compat_firmware.sh
/lib/udev/rules.d/50-compat_firmware.rules

Be careful not to confuse these with the similarly named distro rules 
that don't contain "compat" in their names.

3. There is now a bcm43xx-firmware package available that installs the 
bcm43xx firmware files for the bcma driver (not the b43 driver), so Nick 
could possibly test that.

I you need any more info to help test please just give me a shout here - 
hopefully this will be the last test release for RHEL6.3 and if it works 
OK I'll release these packages to the main repo.

Many thanks,

Phil