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

[ni at centergate.net]

> 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.


1.) Ok, so I manually disabled "elrepo", enabled "elrepo-testing"

2.) removed the following from my system:

kmod-compat-wireless-3.5-3.el6.elrepo.x86_64

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

/lib/firmware/brcm

3.) Rebooted

4.) Ran:  yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update kmod-compat-wireless
and installed kmod-compat-wireless-3.5.1-1.sn.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

5.) Rebooted

6.) Unable to get interface to come up, noticed the following errors:

brcmsmac bcma0:0: firmware: requesting brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
brcmsmac bcma0:0: firmware: requesting brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw


I *assumed* based on the above that these files would be installed by
the new RPM. I may have been confused with #3 listed above.

Once I copied over the files and manually loaded "brcmsmac" everything
worked.

Nick