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[Thomas J. Baker]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:28 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/21/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:30:25 -0400
> > > "Thomas J. Baker" <tjb at unh.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > FWIW, I just downloaded the koji nm build from this morning and it
> > > > doesn't help. NM wireless is busted. Wired works fine though.
> > >
> > > In what way are you seeing 'busted'?  Dan just fixed a bug that would
> > > cause a traceback when trying to use wireless without a wired device
> > > plugged in, are you seeing something different?
> > >
> > Yeah.  NM appears to think there are no wireless interfaces: the
> > "Wireless Networks" option (right click on NM applet) is greyed out.
> > 'ifconfig wlan0' thinks there is:
> > 
> > [root at localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0
> > wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:02:6F:FC:3C
> >           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> > [root at localhost ~]#
> > 
> > 
> > Also have 'giant nm-applet icon' (probably about 5 cm wide).
> > 
> > [running NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.3.svn2844.fc8 and friends]
> 
> I think this is the kernel's fault. 2.6.23-0.185.rc6.git7.fc8 works fine,
> -0.187 doesn't. BZ at 301011.

Not completely for me. I had working wireless this morning with the
187.rc6.git7 kernel but it doesn't work after todays update with that
same kernel. I'll try the older kernel to see if it helps though.

Thanks,

tjb
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