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
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