New kernel update breaks wireless

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 11 13:42:24 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 23:32 -0400, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> I just let PUP update the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.22.1-32.fc6. When I 
> boot into that kernel, my wireless interface fails to start. When I run
> 
> $ ifup eth1
> 
> I get
> 
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
> Failed to bring up eth1.
> 
> I've looked, but I cannot find any reference to the variable 
> SIOCSIFFLAGS. Anyone know what's wrong and how to fix this?

OK, I screwed up yesterday. Someone said this and said his wireless works but
hi NIC didn't.

But neither of you included a piece of essential information. You are
running F6 . Is that not true. You really should tell people this since
most of the conversations are on f7.


Your error messages mean to me that the interface is already up.

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