why is my wireless totally borked in f7?

[Karl Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
>   i've already been down that road.  i've used both the official FC
> kernels, and built my own as well.  the gateway laptop does have the
> broadcom drivers loaded, so that shouldn't be a problem.

	Explain to me how your gateway laptop has broadcom drivers loaded? I 
agree that F7 is not a very good version of Linux because it's too new. 
Lots of my stuff doesn't work either. But I got my laptop working with 
F7 but it was a fight.


> 
>   let me re-iterate -- until f7, wireless config and usage was a
> no-brainer.  it just worked.  now, with f7, it just *doesn't* work.
> so i'm curious if anyone else noticed problems right after moving to
> f7.
> 
> rday


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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