F12 Wireless disabled with kernel 2.6.31.6-162

[Bill Davidsen]

Richard England wrote:
> pro/wireless 2200BG in a Dell Latitude D410. F12 Fully updated (as of 7 
> December).
> 
> With Kernel 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686  the wireless is completely 
> disabled.  This was the latest kernel installed.
> 
> Backing down to kernel 2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686  everything returns to 
> normal.  This was the immediately preceding kernel I had.
> 
> Any one confirm this?  I looked for a BZ entry but I'm notoriously bad 
> at finding things there....
> 
Did you have a 3rd party driver installed, like kmod-wl or similar? If so did 
you update that?

Boot your old kernel and see what driver is in use. If it's not a Fedora driver 
you are on your own. At least people here are polite, LKML is less so on 
occasion. ;-)

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