no automatic connection for wireless

[antonio]

Il 28/04/2012 13:57, cornel panceac ha scritto:
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> 2012/4/28 Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com
> <mailto:olivares14031 at yahoo.com>>
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>     Dear folks,
>
>     I have an acer aspire one netbook with atheros wireless:
>
>     01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x /
>     AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
>
>     After kernel 3.3.1(3.3.1-5.fc17.i686), the wireless does not connect
>     automatically anymore :(,
>     I have to push the switch on the side back and forth and after two
>     or three moves it then starts.
>
>     It used to work without this hack before in previous releases since
>     a good while, and now it does not.
>
>     [root at acer-aspire-1 ~]# uname -a
>     Linux acer-aspire-1 3.3.2-8.fc17.i686 #1 SMP Sat Apr 21 12:41:50 UTC
>     2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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>     What do I need to do?
>     It was working before, but now it does not have.  I have to push the
>     switch from side to side to get the wireless up, but before I did
>     not.  Is there a way I can get the default behavior back up?
>
>     In FreeBSD and windows, the wireless comes up without problems, but
>     only in Fedora.  I am triple booting this netbook.
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>
>     Antonio
>     --
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> check this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815091
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same here on Acer 5670, and a different adapter:

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] 
Network Connection (rev 02)



-- 
Antonio Montagnani
Fedora 17 Beta