Wireless 3945ABG won't work on fedora 14 x86

Jim binarynut at comcast.net
Wed Oct 27 16:17:59 UTC 2010


  On 10/27/2010 12:09 PM, the.masch at gmail.com wrote:
> Yes. I know I wrote the subject with F14, I just tried Ubuntu LiveCD 
> to know if it works. Have you tried F14 Live CD?
> Do you know why it is now work on my machine?
>
>
> O Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pbrobinson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:07 AM, the.masch at gmail.com
>     <mailto:the.masch at gmail.com>
>     <the.masch at gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <mailto:the.masch at gmail.com> <the.masch at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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a lot of the wireless drivers have not been released for the later 
kernels in rpmfusion .
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