http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555658#c1
Bayard Coolidge changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Bayard Coolidge 2009-11-17 02:07:26 UTC ---
I'm seeing a similar problem wherein the wireless interface (Broadcom 4311 as
wlan0) is not being fully initialized despite having firmware in place. In
/var/log/messages, I'm seeing "ADDR_CONF(NETDEV_UP); wlan0: link not ready"
messages. The configuration was fully operational under openSUSE 11.1, and is
working under Fedora 11 and Fedora 12. On my HP dv9000z laptop, the slide
switch to enable the wireless interface is turned ON, and the blue light is ON
as a result. My suspicion, based on reading various fora, is that the 'rfkill'
kernel module (and/or some other configuration file that this module relies
upon) is mis-configured/mis-behaving. My hard-wired Ethernet interface does
come up, but is generally slower to do so than in previous releases, resulting
in Firefox timing out when trying to fetch the first page (be it the home page
or the last page read just prior to the previous shutdown). An lsmod of this
system shows, in part:
b43 175128 0
mac80211 252864 1 b43
cfg80211 123200 2 b43,mac80211
ssb 63320 1 b43
pcmcia 46940 2 b43,ssb
pcmcia_core 47876 3 b43,ssb,pcmcia
rfkill 28272 1 cfg80211
Adding "rfkill=0" as a kernel parameter in the /boot/grub/menu.lst stanza has
no apparent effect on the problem.
ifconfig shows:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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