No Wireless Connection After Update

[nujinini]

Hi Everybody,

I just updated my newly installed Fedora 11 a few minutes ago. After everything, I rebooted and was surprised to see that I cannot connect anymore to my wireless. It was working perfectly before I rebooted. I am now using my windows partition. I need help please on how can I make the wireless connection work again.

Thank you in advance

I have edited for some additional informations. I can use the old kernel in the grub menu and it connects to the wireless. The problem is only with the new kernel. I got the following message after I tried to update again these two items:

Common files for Broadcom 802.11 STA Driver
Metapackage which tracks wl kernel module for newest kernel


Dependency Resolution Failed.
A package could not be found that allows the action to complete.
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-wl-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686-5.10.91.9-2.fc10.2.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates) : Success - empty transaction

[waterhead]

It looks like your wireless is using the Broadcom Linux STA driver, which contains the wl module.

When installing it from a repository, you need a driver base package and a precompiled kernel module. The kernel module is specific to the kernel version that you are running. So this error is saying that the kernel doesn't match the module:

kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-wl-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686-5.10.91.9-2.fc10.2.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates) : Success - empty transaction

It is looking for kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686. I don't know which kernel you have installed, but you can find out with this command.

uname -r

You can always manually install the driver. You would need to download the source, and then compile your own module. It's really not that hard. First, download the source from here, get a copy of the README file too.

Broadcom.com - 802.11 Linux STA driver

To compile a kernel driver, there are a few things you need installed first. Install these things using YUM:

kenel-devel (kernel source)
kernel-headers-`uname -r` (those are backticks, keep them in there)
gcc (the Linux compiler)
make (it may already be installed)

Follow the instructions in the README file. You may want to first uninstall the kmod-wl package, to avoid any problems with conflicting updates.

Remember this, you will need to compile the driver again for future kernel updates. If your system is working fine, it is not necessary to update it. Don't fix something that 'aint broke.

EDIT: I just noticed that you say you have Fedora 11 installed, but your wl kernel module is for Fedora 10! I think that you are using the wrong repository. Make sure that the YUM configuration is correct. You really don't want to put a Fedora 10 kernel on a Fedora 11 installation.

[nujinini]

It looks like your wireless is using the Broadcom Linux STA driver, which contains the wl module.

When installing it from a repository, you need a driver base package and a precompiled kernel module. The kernel module is specific to the kernel version that you are running. So this error is saying that the kernel doesn't match the module:

kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-wl-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686-5.10.91.9-2.fc10.2.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates) : Success - empty transaction

It is looking for kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686. I don't know which kernel you have installed, but you can find out with this command.

uname -r

You can always manually install the driver. You would need to download the source, and then compile your own module. It's really not that hard. First, download the source from here, get a copy of the README file too.

Broadcom.com - 802.11 Linux STA driver

To compile a kernel driver, there are a few things you need installed first. Install these things using YUM:

kenel-devel (kernel source)
kernel-headers-`uname -r` (those are backticks, keep them in there)
gcc (the Linux compiler)
make (it may already be installed)

Follow the instructions in the README file. You may want to first uninstall the kmod-wl package, to avoid any problems with conflicting updates.

Remember this, you will need to compile the driver again for future kernel updates. If your system is working fine, it is not necessary to update it. Don't fix something that 'aint broke.

EDIT: I just noticed that you say you have Fedora 11 installed, but your wl kernel module is for Fedora 10! I think that you are using the wrong repository. Make sure that the YUM configuration is correct. You really don't want to put a Fedora 10 kernel on a Fedora 11 installation.

Gee..thanks a lot...I would be doing all of the above but in a very slow but sure way so that I can learn and understand the problem. I will be giving a feedback as soon as possible.

by the way uname -r gave me the ff: 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586

[waterhead]

You shouldn't need to compile from source. The RPM Fusion repository has a wl kernel module for your kernel. You need to figure out why it was looking for a Fedora 10 kernel module. Is this a fresh install of Fedora 11, or an upgrade from Fedora 10?

[nujinini]

You shouldn't need to compile from source. The RPM Fusion repository has a wl kernel module for your kernel. You need to figure out why it was looking for a Fedora 10 kernel module. Is this a fresh install of Fedora 11, or an upgrade from Fedora 10?

twas an upgrade online from 10 to 11

[waterhead]

It looks like your repos are still ponting to Fedora 10. Go into the /etc/yum.repos.d folder and check the repo configuration files. I don't know which one is the culprit, but it could be more than one.

[nujinini]

It looks like your repos are still ponting to Fedora 10. Go into the /etc/yum.repos.d folder and check the repo configuration files. I don't know which one is the culprit, but it could be more than one.

hi,

do you think something in this site can be of help?

RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories for Fedora 11 (Leonidas) now available

[waterhead]

It seems that you already have the RPM Fusion repository enabled. That is what gave you the original error. It is just checking for F10 updates instead of F11.

I checked my YUM repos configuration files, and they do not spell out the Fedora version. Instead, it uses a variable of some sort:

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch

I am not sure how it determines the version, but some research suggests that the file /etc/fedora-release is the source of the info.

What is listed in your /etc/fedora-release file?

[nujinini]

It seems that you already have the RPM Fusion repository enabled. That is what gave you the original error. It is just checking for F10 updates instead of F11.

I checked my YUM repos configuration files, and they do not spell out the Fedora version. Instead, it uses a variable of some sort:

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch

I am not sure how it determines the version, but some research suggests that the file /etc/fedora-release is the source of the info.

What is listed in your /etc/fedora-release file?

/etc/fedora-release: ASCII text

is this what you mean?

[waterhead]

Run this command to show the file contents.

cat /etc/fedora-release