[Novalug] HELP! WiFi Networking broken

Rich Goodwin Rich@The-Goodwins.US
Thu Aug 9 08:42:45 EDT 2012


Running through debugging this on Saturday might be beneficial to 
others who may not be a technically savvy or are uncomfortable with 
their abilities.  Some new to linux may not know lsmod as Jay mentioned 
or how to "find a compatible driver."

Just a thought ... I've been where you are and fixed it but never 
"shared" what I did and what worked (nor didn't work).

Rich

On 2012-08-09 08:37, Scott Gates wrote:
> Yeah, I think the kernel update fragged the driver.  Wired networking
> works--surprisingly not much faster than wireless.  But.. a laptop
> that has to be wired is like a bicycle chained half-way up a 
> tree--not
> a lot of good to anybody.  Working on tracking down a
> compatible driver. 
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:27 AM, John Place <jplace@unixsage.com [3]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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