Can't see MacBook Air airport after kernel upgrade

[Steven Stern]

On 06/19/2010 03:53 PM, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams<colin at colina.demon.co.uk>  writes:
>
>      Colin>  Hello, My MacBook Air, running Fedora 12 (only - no Mac OSX
>      Colin>  or anything else present) was working fine last night. I hit
>      Colin>  the orange star to do an upgrade.
>
>      Colin>  Today, the system could not see an eth0 wireless device (the
>      Colin>  Airport).
>
>      Colin>  I edited grub.conf to say default=1, so as to reboot the
>      Colin>  previous kernel. Now all is working fine (so I'm not too
>      Colin>  concerned).
>
>      Colin>  That previous (working) kernel is 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64.
>
>      Colin>  The newer (not so good) kernel is 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.x86_64.
>
>      Colin>  Do I need to open a bugzilla ticket for this? If so, are
>      Colin>  there any special keywords/terms I should use to make sure it
>      Colin>  gets seen by the tight people?
>
>      Colin>  Hm. 10 seconds after I sent this message, I see there is
>      Colin>  another update available - for kmod-wl. Maybe this is
>      Colin>  relevant.
>
> Yes, that was it. 127 is working fine again. it's just a matter of the
> timing of the updates.
>
> Sorry for the noise.

Always a good thing to wait for the next morning before updating. <smile>

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-- Steve