On 17-3-2017 6:47, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Hi Stephen,
The issue here is with an out-of-tree driver, ie. broadcom-wl, so not really a kernel issue. Anyway, I asked for more info in bugzilla to determine whether using the brcmfmac driver, which is supported upstream, is an option. Regards, Arend > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:22:58 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Bug 194903] New: After updating Kernel to 4.9.9 my wireless adapter > does not work > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194903 > > Bug ID: 194903 > Summary: After updating Kernel to 4.9.9 my wireless adapter > does not work > Product: Networking > Version: 2.5 > Kernel Version: 4.9.9 > Hardware: x86-64 > OS: Linux > Tree: Mainline > Status: NEW > Severity: blocking > Priority: P1 > Component: IPV4 > Assignee: [email protected] > Reporter: [email protected] > Regression: No > > I have a Macbook Pro 13" (7, 1) and when I updated my kernel version to 4.9.9 > (F25), my broadcom wireless adapter is no longer detected. I have since > updated > to the latest kernel and have gotten the same result. As of now, I am > currently > operating at the kernel version prior to 4.9.9 (4.8.6-300.fc25.x86_64 > ) and I am able to use WiFi with no issues. I have tried uninstalling and > reinstalling the broadcom -wl driver to no avail. I narrowed the issue down to > the kernel simply by updating the kernel only and after reboot, wireless was > gone. >
