Re: ABYSMAL WiFi with broadcom-wl

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On 02/07/2017 01:26 PM, cen wrote:
> Yes, wifi is correct and works perfectly on two other Fedora laptops and
> my phone.
> 
> Before I installed broadcom-wl and disabled secure boot, WiFi did not
> work at all by the way. It was installed following this:
> https://gist.github.com/markcaudill/c161b4d30f7f7ffdabbe
> 
> [cen@localhost ~] $ lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
> 08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac
> Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03)
>     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:0623]
>     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>     Memory at d1600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
>     Memory at d1400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
>     Capabilities: <access denied>
>     Kernel driver in use: wl
>     Kernel modules: bcma, wl

Don't bcma and wl fight with each other? Not sure.

I don't get the disabling of secure boot in the post you cite. While
the post was for F22 and there may have been issues with secure boot
and F22, secure boot should only affect the boot loader--not the kernel
that's being loaded. I could be wrong on that...I don't profess to
understand UEFI fully.

> Rick Stevens je 07. 02. 2017 ob 22:06 napisal:
>> On 02/07/2017 12:46 PM, cen wrote:
>>> 08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless
>>> Network Adapter (rev 03)
>>>
>>> Nothing particularly interesting in dmesg:
>>>
>>> [cen@localhost ~] $ dmesg |grep WL
>>> [   17.624730] WLC_SCAN error (-22)
>>> [   18.626270] WLC_SCAN error (-22)
>>> [   19.627999] WLC_SCAN error (-22)
>>> [   20.629398] WLC_SCAN error (-22)
>>> [   21.631062] WLC_SCAN error (-22)
>>> [   22.632180] WLC_SCAN error (-22)
>>>
>>> [   11.270299] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
>>> [   11.270302] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
>>> [   11.272360] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required
>>> key missing - tainting kernel
>>> [   11.387216] wl 0000:08:00.0 wlp8s0: renamed from eth0
>>> [   12.215523] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp8s0: link is not ready
>>>
>>>
>>> Since only proprietary driver exists for this card, should I even bother
>>> debugging (how?) or is all hope lost? Wifi is super slow (100KB) and
>>> drops constantly.
>> Can you verify that the thing is connected to the correct wifi network,
>> on an uncluttered channel? Are you certain you don't have a different
>> Broadcom driver (e.g. b43 or bcma) loaded that might conflict?
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