[elrepo] wl-kmod error at installing

[Diego Farias]

Hi all; with the kernel update (3.10.0-327.4.5.el7.x86_64) now at the
moment of modprobe, the ERROR changes:

sudo modprobe wl
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': required key not available

is this better?



El lunes, 25 de enero de 2016, Diego Farias <dnfarias at uc.cl> escribió:

> Thanks a lot Steve:
>
> 1) I'll try to create that EL7 virtual machine; but if I 'fix' the problem
> there, what can we say about the 'big' problem? (in this EL7)
>
> 2) I'll try to contact en 'expert' in my university and see if he can help
> me; I visited him when I got this problem and he said that 'wireless and
> touchpad' are always a 'pain' in Linux.
>
> 3) I know is cheap, but this pc has ~ 1 year only; I had Ubuntu first and
> recently I changed to centOS because of my professor's recommendation. On
> Ubuntu I had 'kind of the same problem' with the Broadcom card, but I was
> able to fix it (sudo modprobe -r a lot of things.. and modprobe wl).
>
>
> 2016-01-25 12:16 GMT-03:00 S.Tindall <s10dal at elrepo.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','s10dal at elrepo.org');>>:
>
>> On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 23:05 -0300, Diego Farias wrote:
>> > I don't see it either, but:
>> >
>> > [root at localhost dafh]# modinfo -n wl
>> > /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.4.4.el7.x86_64/extra/wl/wl.ko
>> >
>> >
>> > Well, Steve, I'm really grateful because of your help; I don't
>> > understand this problem but I'm sure *someday* I'll be able to fix it
>> > (I don't expect to be wireless-less for all the life of this
>> > computer).
>> >
>> >
>> > If you, or anyone in this mailing, have an idea about what's going on,
>> > anytime, please answer this list or contact me.
>>
>> 1) My first suggestion would be to create an EL7 virtual machine and
>> work out any build/installation issues there. Easy to say, slightly
>> harder to do (lots of reading). KVM is available natively in EL7.
>>
>> 2) I would suggest having an EL linux "expert" do a hands-on examination
>> of the system. It can be hard to diagnose a remote "black box" problem,
>> whereas, in person, seemingly unrelated issues can point to the bigger
>> problem and greatly speed up diagnosis.
>>
>> 3) Hardware is "cheap". :-) We all reach a point where a hardware
>> upgrade is in order.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Steve
>>
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