2010/8/6 Ville-Pekka Vainio <vpiva...@cs.helsinki.fi> > Hi, > > I'm running Fedora 13 with NetworkManager-0.8.1-1 and a 2.6.34 kernel from > koji. My system has a BCM4312 wifi chip which I'm using with the b43 module > and the proprietary firmware from Broadcom. > > In Ubuntu, the native b43 module is broken, as the device is always disabled.
We have to block it and use the bcmwl-kernel-source, which installs a "wl" driver that works. Maybe this works for you, too? NetworkManager is acting a bit weird with wifi. Every time I reboot the > laptop, the wireless connection is disabled, meaning I have to right click > on the nm-applet icon and choose "Enable wireless". Based on > /var/log/messages the firmware is loaded to the device at this point like > this: > > NetworkManager[968]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. > kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) > kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; > type="method_return", sender=":1.1" (uid=0 pid=968 comm="NetworkManager) > interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 > destination=":1.56" (uid=500 pid=1563 comm="nm-applet)) > NetworkManager[968]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: starting > -> ready > NetworkManager[968]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason > 42) > NetworkManager[968]: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'Auto > <network name here>' > > etc. etc. > > With my previous laptop, which had an Intel wifi chip, the wireless network > was always automatically enabled when I booted up the computer. I know the > b43 drivers are still under development, but does anyone have an idea what > could be going wrong? The dbus error does look a bit scary to me. > > -- > Ville-Pekka Vainio > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > networkmanager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >
_______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
