Only tried Liquorix out yesterday, worked fine. Updated today, rebooted, reinstalled my wireless as I have to do every time (Broadcom STA/WL), it came up as expected. Rebooted again a little later to no wireless. Have removed the two Liquorix kernels and dropped back to the vanilla 3.1 from Testing.
Everything is working again, just thought I would report as I know a few here use this kernel.
Cheers
Steve
Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
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Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
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Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
Which Broadcom card do you have?
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lspci -nn | grep 14e4
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Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
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lspci -nn | grep 14e4
12:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
With modern kernel versions you should be able to use the brcmsmac kernel driver (brcm80211 in some kernels) instead of Broadcom STA.
This driver was introduced in 2.6.39, and was a staging driver up to 3.1, though it seems to work fine for most users. You might need to add it to /etc/modules manually when it won't load from staging.
This driver was introduced in 2.6.39, and was a staging driver up to 3.1, though it seems to work fine for most users. You might need to add it to /etc/modules manually when it won't load from staging.
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Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
Thanks Albert, brcmsmac works and is installed, added to /etc/modules just in case. Will retry the liquorix kernel later today, had a busy day, I had to dash out earlier, so deleted the original post I made about it as I had wanted to add to it, but didn't have the time. Got to dash out again
Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
By the way, if you want to be sure which driver is actually driving your Broadcom card, you can run this command:
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inxi -N
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Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
Yes, I ran inxi -F (out of habit), but was in a rush, so put in the modules file just in case.
Thanks for all the help, back in for a bit, so going to try Liqourix now
Thanks for all the help, back in for a bit, so going to try Liqourix now
Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
Nope, no wireless on the new liquorix kernel, have uninstalled will raise on their forum later this evening.
:edit: Could this be a problem caused by eth2 being renamed wlan0 ???
:edit: Could this be a problem caused by eth2 being renamed wlan0 ???
Re: Liquorix kernel update killed my wireless
No.
Some drivers (e.g. STA) use an eth number and some drivers use wlan. This doesn't make any difference.
Some drivers (e.g. STA) use an eth number and some drivers use wlan. This doesn't make any difference.
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