On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 21:04, Sarah
<worldwise001@gmail.com> wrote:
Re: wifi compatibility; as it turns out, the Broadcom 4312 chipset is
having its driver still written/ported over to the new mac80211 stack.
Chances are, if it's only partially supported in your kernel version
now, it will probably be fully supported in the near future. (AFAIK,
Ad-hoc mode was available in the mac80211 stack 2.6.30+?)
It appears that the problem is with the ssb module. In kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 is when the problem starts. I went through a number of kernels and the problem starts in that one. If you add ssb.blacklist=1 to the boot command the machine will boot. From what I gathered the ssb module determines which b43 module to load the newer one or the b43-legacy module depending on the chipset.
As for looking for Fedora 11 old kernel updates... now there's a
daunting task. It seems even the mirrors of fedora erase all previous
packages...