Kernel update causes wireless to disable

[Jim]

On 11/13/2013 03:32 PM, Don Levey wrote:
> My wife's laptop was running fine on kernel 3.10.11-200:
> Linux croweflies.the-leveys.us 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9
>
> uname -a:
>
> 13:03:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> lspci -s 03:00.0:
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
>
> rfkill list wlan:
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> 	Soft blocked: no
> 	Hard blocked: no
>
> I neither had nor needed any additional kernel modules.  However, when I
> upgraded kernels:
>
> uname -a:
> Linux croweflies.the-leveys.us 3.11.2-201.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 27
> 19:20:55 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> lspci -s 03:00.0:
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
>
>
> rfkill list wlan:
> 0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
> 	Soft blocked: no
> 	Hard blocked: no
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
> 	Soft blocked: no
> 	Hard blocked: yes
>
> Now I've got "asus-wlan" while my original one is listed as "hard
> blocked." The problem is that the "asus-wlan" doesn's show as an
> available interface, and I cannot connect.  Any suggestions?
>   -Don
The new kernel has most liklely discontinued you wireless driver.

Restart your laptop and "down arrow" to the previous kernel-3.10.11-200 
and boot up on that.

If you get the wireless working again, do a yum remove 
kernel-3.11.2-201.fc19.x86_64

Then do a  yum install yum-plugin-versionlock.

Then get into your SU filemanager and go to 
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list file and open.

Then do a rpm -qa | grep kernel  and copy and paste every kernel package 
related to kernel-3.10.11-200
into the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list file and do a Save on file.

In doing this yum will never update any kernel above kernel-3.10.11-200 
and you should never have any more wireless
problems until you upgrade to the next version of Fedora.