why is my wireless totally borked in f7?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 26 14:05:48 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 19:26 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> >       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.
> 
>   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.
> 
Well we need more information since my experience was just the opposite.
Tell us more about how you are configuring the wireless.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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