[Bug 729996] New: no broadcom wireless driver on 12.1 RC2
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c0 Summary: no broadcom wireless driver on 12.1 RC2 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ks@budostore.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2 Hi, I made a fresh install of 12.1 Rc2 on my eeePC. I have no wireless network after installation. On my 11.4 installation the brcm80211 kernel module is loaded. "lsmog | grep brcm" gives me: brcmsmac mac80211 brcmutil cfg80211 Please tell me if ou need more information. Karl Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c1 Karl Sinn <ks@budostore.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P0 - Crit Sit Severity|Major |Critical --- Comment #1 from Karl Sinn <ks@budostore.de> 2011-11-17 09:43:16 UTC --- Still the same for the official 12.1 Release In /var/log/messages I found this (no copy): b43-phy1: Broadcom 4313 WLAN found found unsupported PHY (Analog 10,Type 8, Revision 1) probe of bcma0:0 failed with error -95 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c Joey Lee <jlee@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jlee@suse.com, | |machen@suse.com AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |machen@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c2 Matt Chen <machen@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |ks@budostore.de --- Comment #2 from Matt Chen <machen@suse.com> 2012-03-10 19:28:30 CST --- Please attach your .config from /usr/src/linux-obj/i386/[platform]/. This would make more clear if the brcm80211 is already built as module in your system. Also, you can confirm in another way. Try running "modprobe -l | grep brcm". See if there is any output. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c3 Karl Sinn <ks@budostore.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|ks@budostore.de | --- Comment #3 from Karl Sinn <ks@budostore.de> 2012-03-10 11:34:50 UTC --- The bug is four months old. The system is not fresh any more and I made the wireless network work. Is this file still usefull for you? linux-1pca:/home/karl # modprobe -l | grep brcm kernel/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmutil/brcmutil.ko kernel/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/brcmsmac.ko -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c4 Matt Chen <machen@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |ks@budostore.de --- Comment #4 from Matt Chen <machen@suse.com> 2012-03-12 09:57:40 CST --- Hi Karl, How did you make it work ? You rebuilt your kernel ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c5 Karl Sinn <ks@budostore.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|ks@budostore.de | --- Comment #5 from Karl Sinn <ks@budostore.de> 2012-03-12 06:47:51 UTC --- Hi Matt, I installed the packages concerning the broadcom drivers from packman. Karl -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c6 --- Comment #6 from Matt Chen <machen@suse.com> 2012-03-12 15:44:04 CST --- I see. For broadcom, there is a brcm opensource driver and proprietary driver which broadcom releases in http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php. brcm driver in kernel of course is still developing. There are still bugs in Broadcom releasing driver. I am not sure if we can distribute this proprietary driver.. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c7 --- Comment #7 from Karl Sinn <ks@budostore.de> 2012-03-12 08:06:45 UTC --- ok, so that's why it's not working out of the box. It would be nice if the installer could give this information, and propose the installation from packman automatically. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729996#c8 Matt Chen <machen@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #8 from Matt Chen <machen@suse.com> 2012-03-19 11:49:21 CST --- (In reply to comment #7)
ok, so that's why it's not working out of the box.
It would be nice if the installer could give this information, and propose the installation from packman automatically. For installation, it would not be possible due to some legal issues. Recommend users to add the http://pmbs.links2linux.org/download/Essentials/openSUSE_12.1/ and install it manually.
So closed this as won't fix. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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