CentOS - Oct 2015 - Broadcom BCM4313 support broken with kernel 2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64?

Hello,


I noticed that with latest kernel (2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64),
my laptop's Wifi doesn't work, whereas with previous kernel
(2.6.32-504.30.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64), it works fine.

Is this a known issue or did I miss something new?

BTW, `lspci`  says:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)


Regards,

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wwp
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On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 7:17 AM, wwp <subscript at free.fr>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I noticed that with latest kernel (2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64),
> my laptop's Wifi doesn't work, whereas with previous kernel
> (2.6.32-504.30.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64), it works fine.
>
> Is this a known issue or did I miss something new?
>
> BTW, `lspci`  says:
> Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
On your previous kernel, I believe you built/installed kmod-wl by
following this ELRepo article:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod

I suggest you do the same with the latest version of the wl driver. As
noted in that article, the kmod-wl binary packages built from the same
SRPM for the latest EL point releases are now available from the
nux-dextop repo.

Akemi

Hello Akemi,


On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:24:15 -0700 Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 7:17 AM, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I noticed that with latest kernel
(2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64),
> > my laptop's Wifi doesn't work, whereas with previous kernel
> > (2.6.32-504.30.3.el6.centos.plus.x86_64), it works fine.
> >
> > Is this a known issue or did I miss something new?
> >
> > BTW, `lspci`  says:
> > Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev
01)
> 
> On your previous kernel, I believe you built/installed kmod-wl by
> following this ELRepo article:
> 
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
> 
> I suggest you do the same with the latest version of the wl driver. As
> noted in that article, the kmod-wl binary packages built from the same
> SRPM for the latest EL point releases are now available from the
> nux-dextop repo.
Sorry for my (very) late reply, but for the sake of the archives I can
confirm, rebuilding the kmod-wl RPM did the trick for a recent kernel
update (ABI probably broken because of it). The mentioned URL still presents
up-to-date information and is valid in order to address this issue.


Regards,

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wwp
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