Wireless went flaky !

Tom Gederberg cheetaux at sbcglobal.net
Sun Feb 4 22:21:34 UTC 2007


I got wireless working with the 2.6.19 kernel, but I had to re-make the
driver to get it to work.

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 14:17 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Tom Gederberg <cheetaux at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I had a similar problem, I just upgraded my system from FC5 to FC6 a
> > couple of days ago.  My wireless card using the RaLink RT2500 chipset.
> > After getting my RT2500 driver to work with the initial FC6 kernel
> > (2.6.18-1.2798), I did a big yum install which also installed a new
> > kernel (2.6.19-1.2895).  I then had to re-make & make install the RT2500
> > driver.
> 
> The 2.6.19 kernel has a bug in one of its interrupt handling routines.
> Have you tried restarting and using the previous 2.6.18 or older
> kernel?
> 




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