Lan Barnes wrote:
I'm frustrated. FC4 broke wireless for me on every box that used it. I
can't get it to work with different HW, different chip sets, ndiswrapper
or madwifi.
I freely admit I'm both stupid and inexperienced.
Hardly the former while likely the latter.
But I have been
reading the stuff and trying what I understood to be the right stuff.
What mailing lists or forums have you tried? Did the driver ML for your
card have anything useful? Is there a similar bug reported on Bugzilla?
I'm surprised that you got no useful help from other users of your
chipset. When I posted ignorance on the IPW2200 mailing list, I got a
response right away - which worked for me.
Same for ACPI: when I went looking for help on that ML (acpi4asus), I
received an offline email containing a patch for my laptop direct from
its author - which worked.
I have no assurance that FC5 will fix things. I'm tempted to try another
distro ... maybe SUSe.
Who has what wireless working with SUSe? Especially Atheros chips ...
I have been as loyal to Red Hat as I have to my wife, but goddamit, even
when she messes with me, she doesn't cut off communication.
I doubt the problem is one that requires a different distro. Although
using a different one might give clues. Have you tried booting a live CD
distro, such as Ubuntu or Knoppix?
When my wireless card on my laptop wouldn't work with my freshly
installed and updated FC4, I tried Knoppix which had no problem using it.
You might try replacing the Fedora-supplied drivers and use one from the
driver maintainer. That worked for me (albeit for a different chipset).
FC4 shipped a mismatched driver and firmware set for my card, whereby
the firmware wouldn't load causing the driver not to work. This despite
FC4 seeing and recognizing the card (chipset).
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