Bug 17139

Summary:	broadcom bcm4311 wi -fi problem (similar Bug 12954 but..)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	livio salarol <livio.salarol>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	José Jorge <lists.jjorge>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	chmos, lists.jjorge, marja11, tmb
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel, broadcom-wl	CVE:
Status comment:

Description livio salarol 2015-11-12 11:19:08 CET

I refer at Bug 12954  in mageia4 because is very similar, but only if i use 
kernel 4-1-12  and breadcom driver of same kernel, because, if a try to use this kernel, wi-fi turn-off on bios and not work , i need to restart turn-on by bios on my pc Compacq 6720s

Fortunatly, if i use kernel 3.19.8 and broadcom-wl 6.30.223.xxx driver of this kernel, it work fine, but it is a problem because i need kernel 4.1.12 for other sw like virtualbox 5.0.8 that don't work in 3.19.xxx  kernel, i needed install previous version

Sorry for my English 
many tanks

Livio Salarol

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Comment 1 Christian Müller 2015-11-15 16:33:50 CET

I can confirm this on HP Compaq 6715s, with a slight difference: Kernel 4.1.12 breaks Wifi, and screen turns to black (looks like its turned off) on boot. With 4.1.13-testing screen is back, but wifi remains dead until BIOS reset. With Kernel 4.1.8 all is fine. For output of lspci look here:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12954

CC: (none) => chmos

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2015-11-16 09:37:00 CET

tmb, zezinho, it seems it's for one of you

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge, tmb
Source RPM: (none) => kernel, broadcom-wl

Comment 3 Christian Müller 2016-01-03 16:42:31 CET

still valid with kernel-desktop-4.1.15-1.mga5-1-1.mga5

Comment 4 Christian Müller 2016-02-14 17:21:55 CET

still valid with kernel-desktop-4.4.1-2.mga5-1-1

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2016-02-14 17:37:44 CET

(In reply to Samuel Verschelde from comment #2)
> tmb, zezinho, it seems it's for one of you

Zézinho, assigning to you, because without assignee this report is forgotten.

However, feel free to reassign to tmb if this isn't a broadcom-wl issue

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge

Comment 6 José Jorge 2016-02-14 20:57:44 CET

Well, I suggest try using 4.4.0 kernel in backports testing, or b43 driver. Because as this is closed source driver, nothing to hope except if you contact upstream. Latest version they provided was in January 2015, 4.x kernels didn't exist!

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