Bug 6875

Summary: Broadcom wifi 43225 break after upgrade to mga2
Product: Mageia Reporter: Arnaud Vacquier <arnaud>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: error : impossible to find the network interface for selected device (using driver wl)
RPMs installed after the hardware detection

Description Arnaud Vacquier 2012-07-27 08:28:50 CEST
Created attachment 2583 [details]
error : impossible to find the network interface for selected device (using driver wl)

Description of problem:
On Mageia 1 KDE 32 wifi run perfect after install RPM "dkms-broadcom-wl" only
After upgrade Mga1 -> Mga2 the wifi is broken

by :

su
mgaapplet-upgrade-helper --new_distro_version=2

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 2 KDE 32bits updated


So, I activated Core / Nonfree / backport (not tainted, not debug,not testing)
And i open hardware detection, he ask me to install :

broadcom kernel desktop (not here before without nonfree)
i allow but it still does not work

thank you
Comment 1 Arnaud Vacquier 2012-07-27 08:30:05 CEST
Created attachment 2584 [details]
RPMs installed after the hardware detection
Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-08-19 15:53:34 CEST
Does ifconfig show you the interface ?
is iwconfig scan working ?
can you _attach_ the output of lsmod and lspcidrake -v ?

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Arnaud Vacquier 2012-10-10 04:11:18 CEST

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