why is my wireless totally borked in f7?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 26 14:01:39 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:19 -0400, 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
> 
How are you trying to make it work? NetworkManager or some other method?
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