Bug 15744

Summary: Broadcom BCM4318 wifi not functional from April 21 RC Dual-DVD x86_64 install
Product: Mageia Reporter: Thomas Andrews <andrewsfarm>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: Anne Nicolas <ennael1>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal CC: eeeemail, marja11, sysadmin-bugs, tmb
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: CVE:
Status comment:

Description Thomas Andrews 2015-04-22 05:20:17 CEST 
Description of problem: After a 64-bit install from the April 21 Dual-DVD, the Braodcom BCM4318-based wifi card is not functional. 

This chip uses the b43 driver in 32-bit installs. With a 64-bit install from the April 21 DualDVD, which includes nonfree firmware, while the nonfree b43 firmware is installed, and lsmod indicates the b43 driver module has been loaded, the wlan0 option is not presented for configuration, as it is with 32-bit installs. None of the other options work.

April 21 builds of the Classical i586 DVD and i586 KDE LiveDVD both configure and connect via wlan0 easily. 




Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Marja Van Waes 2015-04-22 08:50:45 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2015-04-22 09:18:01 CEST 
Are you sure its b43 on the i586 installs ?

Since it's BCM4318, it's also covered by the wl driver which is missing from dual...

and "wlan0" usually points to wl as the others usually get the new names

and we seem to miss a couple of broadcom configs from core too

Ennael, theese should also be on dual:

in core (both i586 & x86_64):
# du -sh broadcom-*
12K     broadcom-bcma-config-1-6.mga5.noarch.rpm
12K     broadcom-ssb-config-1-6.mga5.noarch.rpm

in nonfree:
12K     broadcom-wl-common-6.30.223.248-2.mga5.nonfree.i586.rpm
1.4M    broadcom-wl-kernel-3.19.4-desktop586-2.mga5-6.30.223.248-24.mga5.nonfree.i586.rpm
24K     broadcom-wl-kernel-desktop586-latest-6.30.223.248-24.mga5.nonfree.i586.rpm


in nonfree x86_64:
12K     broadcom-wl-common-6.30.223.248-2.mga5.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
1.4M    broadcom-wl-kernel-3.19.4-desktop-2.mga5-6.30.223.248-24.mga5.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
24K     broadcom-wl-kernel-desktop-latest-6.30.223.248-24.mga5.nonfree.x86_64.rpm

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 Mageia Robot 2015-04-22 10:07:03 CEST 
commit ca3eb56ec520e43f8c8f962e1f96d47cf523ad10
Author: Anne Nicolas <ennael@...>
Date:   Wed Apr 22 10:06:10 2015 +0200

    add missing wl driver abd broadcom configs (mga#15744)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/bcd/commit/?id=ca3eb56ec520e43f8c8f962e1f96d47cf523ad10
Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2015-04-22 11:05:10 CEST 
Oh, and one more spotted by MrsB on qa ml

in core:

24K	b43-openfwwf-5.2-6.mga5.noarch.rpm
Comment 4 Thomas Andrews 2015-04-22 14:32:32 CEST 
In the process of testing other RC isos, I had replaced the DualDVD install with one from the Classical i586 DVD. I checked installed packages, and the i586 installs must be using b43-openfwwf. The wl driver is NOT installed. Kernel-firmware-nonfree was originally installed, but after removing it, powering down, and rebooting, wifi still works.

I'd say that if b43-openfwwf isn't on the DualDVD, that's what's needed.
Comment 5 Thomas Backlund 2015-04-22 14:37:18 CEST 
Yep, as noted in comment 3
claire robinson 2015-04-22 16:25:42 CEST

CC: (none) => eeeemail

Comment 6 Mageia Robot 2015-04-22 16:35:00 CEST 
commit 966d18078abd7baa25dcf1c67394b0b3f2da740f
Author: Anne Nicolas <ennael@...>
Date:   Wed Apr 22 16:34:09 2015 +0200

    add missing b43- firmwraes for dual iso (mga#15744)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/bcd/commit/?id=966d18078abd7baa25dcf1c67394b0b3f2da740f
Comment 7 Thomas Andrews 2015-04-22 19:13:38 CEST 
Latest iso build with b43 firmwares fixes the problem. Marking this bug Resolved.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED