a request for wireless conection with the latest kernel.

Jan Brosius jan.brosius at skynet.be
Sat Mar 8 21:53:29 UTC 2008


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:50:19 +0100
> Jan Brosius <jan.brosius at skynet.be> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use fedora 8. I just installed the latest kernel and the nvidia module 
>> kmod-nvidia and now the nvidia driver doesn't work anymore with the 
>> oldest kernel.  The nvidia driver does work with the latest kernel  but 
>> my wireless connection doesn't work with the latest kernel. On the other 
>> hand my wireless connection does work with the oldest kernel (but not 
>> the nvidia driver).
>>     
>
> rpm -e "whatever the nvidia driver rpm is called"
>
> install kernel version that you want to use
>
> rpm -i "http://rpm.livna.org/whatever-nvidia-driver-you-require"
>
> Note that I don't use the nvidia stuff so I'm not entire sure that this will
> work, but I don't see any obvious reason why it wouldn't.
>
>   
Thanks for the hint but I needed also a xorg-nvidia-drv package for my 
old kernel and that package is not available anymore at livna.
So I hope that there will come a new kernel that gives me back a 
wireless connection.

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