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tririver

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 49

wireless problem when upgrading to linux 3.5.3-1

Hi all,

When I upgrade from Linux 3.4.9-1 to 3.5.3-1, my wireless card no longer works. Downgrade to 3.4.9 solves the problem.

My wireless card:

lspci|grep -i net
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

miko

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2006-04-16

Posts: 49

Re: wireless problem when upgrading to linux 3.5.3-1

I had the same issue with iwlwifi driver. I got messages like this in /var/log/everything.log:

iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode' failed.
iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode' failed.
iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode' failed.
iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode' failed.
iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode' failed.
iwlwifi 0000:0c:00.0: no suitable firmware found!

For now I resolved it by linking:
ln -s /usr/lib/firmware /lib/firmware

I suspect the module has wrong path compiled in.