[Novalug] HELP! WiFi Networking broken

John Place jplace@unixsage.com
Thu Aug 9 08:27:09 EDT 2012


Absolutely agree, uninstalling packages should be a last resort..

When grub comes up, hit the space bar and boot the previous kernel and 
see if that restores your wireless.. I*think* holding the shift while 
booting will get you into grub also..

If that is the case then you probably have a kernel module for the 
previous kernel and either was not available or just missed.. Network 
kmods are dicey since you easily get into a chicken egg issue..

I have a laptop that needs a wireless kmod from rpm fusion (runs Fedora) 
so when I patch I get the same result you did. I would have to boot from 
the older kernel and update the wireless driver (or plug a cat 5 cable in)..

On that particular machine when patching I would see if there is a new 
kernel. If there was I would update the wireless driver (which would 
"drag along" the new kernel) and _then_ patch the box with a second run 
of "yum update".. A little messy but it seemed to work pretty well for 
me.. As always YMMV :-)

Hope this helps

Good Luck
John



On 08/09/2012 06:57 AM, Ed James wrote:
> No clue about backing out of updates - I've always found too
> many barbs in that fish-hook.




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