why is my wireless totally borked in f7?
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jul 25 23:11:36 UTC 2007
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> the short question: what is it about upgrading from fc6 to f7 that
> completely destroyed my wireless?
>
> the long form: ever since upgrading to f7 (actually, a fresh
> install), i've been unable to get wireless access, which i've had
> without problems for at least the last couple releases. i've asked
> about this before and i've been fighting with this on and off lately,
> and i plan on spending time this weekend going at this again. but,
> really, has anyone else gone through this and can explain what it is
> about f7 that just sucks WRT wireless?
>
> my main system is a dell inspiron 9200 in which i use a linksys
> pcmcia card (WPC11-V31) which worked flawlessly with my linksys WAP
> until f7. i also have a gateway MX7120 with onboard wireless running
> f7 which also utterly fails to connect.
>
> wireless used to be an absolute no-brainer until f7 -- the total
> failure. is there something simple i'm overlooking? i can't be more
> detailed until i go at this over the weekend but if there's something
> stupidly trivial i might have overlooked WRT f7, by all means, make a
> suggestion. thanks.
>
> rday
>
Well for sure you have a new kernel. In a root Terminal use # lsmod and
see if your wireless software is in the new kernel. If not seen then do
# modprobe your-kernel-driver from FC6 and if it does nothing your
kernel has the driver you need.
If it says no such thing then you need to yum a newer kernel or, yum a
kernel update having that driver.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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