Wireless 3945ABG won't work on fedora 14 x86

the.masch at gmail.com the.masch at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 03:07:56 UTC 2010


Sorry to reply the post again, but I have another question:
I have tested Ubuntu 10.10 and the Wireless is detected perfectly, Does it
mean that Fedora does not contain the right drivers for 2.6.34 kernel?

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:06 PM, the.masch at gmail.com
<the.masch at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have to use Fedora 13 only with 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686 kernel, it is the
> latest version of 2.6.33 series. I cannot use any version of 2.6.34 series,
> I have been try it with every single update and I did not have luck.
>
> So, Do I need to wait to someone update the firmware? How can I help with
> the report? I am not very familiar how I should proceed.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> 2010/10/23 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>
>
> On 10/23/2010 08:08 PM, the.masch wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> > Since the update of kernel 2.6.34.XXX I have the problem that my
>> wirelles
>> > 3945 is not detected by Fedora 13, now I have downloaded Fedora 14 RC1
>> and I
>> > have the same issue. Do you know how to fix it?
>> >
>>
>> This smells like a typical problem of upstream maintainers putting new
>> firmware into firmware/ instead of submitting the firmware to the
>> linux-firmware project and the author of the driver then require a new
>> firmware and the firmware is "missing/misplaced" ..
>>
>> Hopefully this problem will be discussed and resolved at the kernels
>> summit which is in couple of days.
>>
>> To solve this is you need to find the last kernel that this worked with
>> then file a bug against the kernel and tell the guys which kernel it
>> worked with and which kernel it stopped working with and they will take
>> it from there and fix it.
>>
>> Start with the latest kernel .34 which you can find here
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=193772
>>
>> If it does not work with the latest or any of  .34 I suggest you try the
>> last .33 which you can find here.
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=190700
>>
>> And if that one does not work you need to try all the .33 kernels until
>> you hit the one that worked for you.
>>
>> JBG
>>
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