So, recently I started having trouble with the broadcom-wl driver that I was using. For those that don’t feel like searching, I will briefly summarize.<\/p>\n
The Asus 1015PED features the Broadcom 4313 wireless adaptor which until now required<\/strong> the use of the broadcom-wl driver. Except about a month ago my system began kernel panicking, which is a little bit like Windows bluescreening. What to do? Searching for the error revealed nothing of interest so I chose to do a fresh install of Fedora 17.<\/p>\n This has actually fixed my problem, but not due to the broadcom-wl module being wrongly configured. It now appears that the brcmsmac<\/em> module is now the preferred driver for this wireless card. I presume that you can install this with something like Another thing of note is that in Fedora 17 “support” for using joysticks has been removed. Thanks to this post<\/a>. Bleh.<\/p>\n I’m still busy rebuilding my system, but I’ll post if I find anything of note.<\/p>\n Also of note: Maybe we now have native monitor mode? I don’t know since I have the alfa adaptors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, recently I started having trouble with the broadcom-wl driver that I was using. For those that don’t feel like searching, I will briefly summarize. OliverK@Firefly|10.13.37.21|~ \u03b1 lspci | grep Network 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b\/g\/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) The Asus 1015PED features the Broadcom 4313 wireless adaptor which until now… <\/p>\nOliverK@Firefly|10.13.37.21|~ \u03b1 lspci | grep Network
\n02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b\/g\/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)<\/code><\/p>\nyum remove akmods-wl<\/code> and then yum install brcmsmac<\/code>. But like I said, I did a clean install so I am not sure.<\/p>\n$ sudo -c \"yum install kernel-modules-extra joystick\"<\/code><\/p>\n
\nOliverK@Firefly|10.13.37.21|~ \u03b1 iw list <snip>
\n Supported interface modes:
\n * managed
\n * monitor<\/code><\/p>\n