Comment 16 for bug 730972

Hello,

I'm probably wrong, but for information, I add such issue on Maverick and Fedora 14 with Lenovo Ideapad u160 until I (re-)activated the BCM4313 card with Lenovo tools on Windows Seven. None of the tips (blacklist, rkfill, modprobe, Fn-F5, etc.) worked on Linux (Lenovo uses some magic in Windows tools to activate this device).

Actually this wireless card is working on FC14 with the Broadcom STA Linux driver (http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php) patched for kernel > 2.6.36 (patch for Fedora sources attached) and this in the /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf file:

# modules blacklisted for broadcom-wl
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist ssb
blacklist b43
blacklist ndiswrapper
#blacklist wl
# Added as suggested in
# http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1438213&postcount=7
blacklist acer-wmi

and lauching next file (name it as you like and place it somewhere in /etc - probably it would be better to create a special directory in /etc to place your local settings file inside) from /etc/rc.local:

#!/bin/bash
#
rmmod b43 ssb wl lib80211_crypt_tkip lib80211
modprobe lib80211_crypt_tkip
modprobe wl
rfkill unblock wifi
exit 0

Hoping these few explanations could help to catch these annoying disagreements in Linux with BCM4313!

Cordialy,

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NVieville