[elrepo] wl-kmod error at installing

[Diego Farias]

sorry guys for this long mailing chain..i just wanted to tell you that
wireless is working now! i just disabled secure boot and i could modprobing
wl.

I don't know why this works and i lose some brightness at booting, but i'm
just happy.

thanks a bunch

El miércoles, 27 de enero de 2016, Diego Farias <dnfarias at uc.cl> escribió:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>:
>>
>>> 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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>>
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