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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