Wireless 3945ABG won't work on fedora 14 x86

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:07 AM, the.masch at gmail.com
<the.masch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:

The subject says Fedora 14. That wireless card works fine for me on 2
different laptops and I don't know of anyone else that uses F-13 with
those cards that has had any problems

Peter


>> 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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