Problem setting up wired networking

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 14 15:11:26 UTC 2008


On Friday 14 November 2008 15:05:10 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2008 13:51:34 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> > Anne could you test kernel 2.6.27. 4-79
> > and see if it works..
> > ( http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=68527 )
>
> I already had that kernel and had checked it.
>
> > Then test with 2.6.27.4-100 and see it if breaks..
> > ( http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=69310 )
>
> So I installed this one and checked it.
>
> > Wondering if  -83 and or -85  are breaking this..
>
> Results:
>
> 2.6.27.3-34     no wired or wireless connection
> 2.6.27.4-79     Wired connection ok, but WPA connection asks for WEP key
> 2.6.27.5-94     ditto
> 2.6.27.5-100   ditto
>
> (Just realised that you said 4-100 and I have 5-100 - is that what you
> intended?)
>
> Note that when the WPA connection fails it brings up a dialogue box asking
> for the WEP key.  Unlike the first dialogue, this is restricted to 4 WEP
> entries - there is no option to enter a WPA key.
>
> Maybe I've already lost the kernel that was installed by the snapshot. 
> That, presumably, was prior to 2.6.27.3-34 - and wireless did work, but
> wired didn't when I first installed.
>
I've just seen that I have kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.27.5-101.fc10.  
Shouldn't that match the kernel?

Anne
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