F8: Kernel update = no Wireless
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Fri Dec 21 15:18:37 UTC 2007
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:18:21PM +0000, Ivan Virgili wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >You put a kernel driver in the old kernel that let's your wireless
> >work. Now you need to get a driver for the new kernel. As of now I
> >haven't found anything the new kernel does better, so just go back to
> >the old kernel for now.
> >
> >Karl
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> I updated the kernel many times without having that problem and without
> installing a new driver for the wireless card. Both are RPM packages
> from Fedora anyway.
Please try the -86.fc8 kernel:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=27585
Upstream the "zd1211rw" has transformed itself into the old
"zd1211rw-mac80211" driver, so I dropped the latter and enabled the
former in F8. Unfortunately, before -86.fc8 I neglected to include
a module alias for zd1211rw-mac80211 in zd1211rw. That should be the
only difference between -85.fc8 and -86.fc8. It is unfortunate that
-85.fc8 got pushed out instead of -86.fc8. :-(
Alternatively, you might remove any reference to zd1211rw-mac80211
from /etc/modprobe.conf or anywhere else you might have them and
replace them with references to zd1211rw.
Hth!
John
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John W. Linville
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