Wireless is not working after upgrading kernel to 4.2.0-rc5-00183-g3fbdc37

Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
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On 9 August 2015 at 18:26, Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/09/2015 09:35 AM, srinivas k wrote:
>> I have upgrade my kernel to 4.2.0-rc5-00183-g3fbdc37, after upgrading
>> i could not see my wireless is working.
>>
>>
>> Here is the outpt of "lspci -nn -d 14e4:"
>>
>> penguin at penguin:~$ lspci -nn -d 14e4:
>> 07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142
>> 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
>>
>> Sorry for my bad english,
>
>
> According to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43, that
> device is not supported by b43. The only driver for that device is wl, the
> proprietary driver by Broadcom. That driver needs to be reinstalled every
> time the kernel is changed. That is what you need to do.

That's right. In other words you were never using b43 with this card.
It just couldn't work.

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Rafa?
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