Network interface not detected after update on Fedora 27

asked 2017-12-17 16:41:54 -0600

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After a fresh install of Fedora 27, the wifi card is not detected after the running the first system update. After some lengthy troubleshooting online I am still no closer to the solution.

uname -r

4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64

lspci -vnn -d 14e4:

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM4356 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43ec] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:0777]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at f1400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Memory at f1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: brcmfmac, wl

rpm -qa | grep -e kernel -e broadcom-wl -e kmod-wl | sort

abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.10.5-1.fc27.x86_64
akmod-wl-6.30.223.271-15.fc27.x86_64
broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-3.fc27.noarch
kernel-4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-core-4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-core-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-debug-devel-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-headers-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-modules-4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-modules-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64
kmod-wl-4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64-6.30.223.271-15.fc27.x86_64
kmod-wl-4.14.5-300.fc27.x86_64-6.30.223.271-15.fc27.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.9.3-1.fc27.x86_64

I have installed the correct kernel-devel package:

sudo dnf install kernel-devel-4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64

Along with enabling RPM-fusion:

sudo dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr... https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...

Installed broadcom-wl and kmod-wl

sudo dnf install -y broadcom-wl kmod-wl

Run the akmods command:

sudo akmods --force --kernel 4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64 --akmod w

Checking kmods exist for 4.13.9-300.fc27.x86_64            [  OK  ]

Run depmod:

sudo depmod -a

(No errors)

And finally modprobe on wl:

sudo modprobe wl

(No errors)

All without success. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I have seen a few older threads documenting similar issues but none of the accepted solutions appear to work in my case.

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Comments

Look through the output of journalctl -b to find where it loads the driver and see if there are any messages that explain the problem.

Maybe easier would be to open two terminals as root. Run journalctl -fa in one and then do modprobe -r wl and modprobe wl in the other one and see what the journal show.

ssieb gravatar imagessieb ( 2017-12-18 15:04:22 -0600 )edit
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