WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel
by Mike Fleetwood
Hi,
On my netbook I booted a test kernel 3.8.0-rc4+ I compiled. Now after
booting back into my regular Fedora kernel 3.6.11-5.fc17.i686.PAE my
wifi network device remains permanently disappeared. No wifi networks
displayed in Network Manager gui. Also the Network Manager syslog
messages make it look like the device has completely disappeared.
Suggestions for restoring wifi welcome.
Thanks
Mike
Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when working before
--8<--
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> monitoring kernel
firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill2: found WiFi
radio killswitch (at
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2)
(driver ath9k)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill4: found WWAN
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill4)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio
killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio
killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiMAX enabled by
radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Networking is enabled
by state file
...
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): using
nl80211 for WiFi device control
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <warn> (wlan0): driver
supports Access Point (AP) mode
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11
WiFi device (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 3)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): now managed
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): device state
change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
...
Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0)
successful, device activated.
Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0)
Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete.
Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when broken after
--8<--
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> monitoring kernel
firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill2: found WWAN
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill2)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiFi disabled by
radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio
killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiMAX enabled by
radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> Networking is enabled
by state file
No (wlan0) related NetworkManager syslog messages afterwards at all.
9 years, 7 months
losing WiFi Access - prompted for password
by SternData
F18...
Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for
my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device on the
network seems to be having problems.
Potential changes on my system include
May 07 21:39:32 Updated: 1:wpa_supplicant-1.1-1.fc18.x86_64
May 25 15:33:44 Installed: kernel-3.9.3-201.fc18.x86_64
May 27 08:06:42 Updated:
1:NetworkManager-glib-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.x86_64
May 27 08:06:47 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.x86_64
May 27 08:06:53 Updated:
network-manager-applet-0.9.8.1-4.git20130514.fc18.x86_64
Given that this has really started the day before yesterday, I suspect
it has something to do with the NetworkManager update. Is anyone else
having this problem?
(Please -- do not tell me to "dump the evil NetworkManager". I'm trying
to solve a problem here, not make some stand against the tide. Thanks.)
--
-- Steve
9 years, 9 months
138a:0018 Validity Sensors will not work
by Jerome Yanga
Please help me get my fingerprint sensor to work.
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
# uname -a
Linux laptop1 3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 13 18:56:55 UTC 2013
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# yum list installed | grep fprint
fprint_demo.x86_64 0.4-10.fc18.1 @fedora
fprintd.x86_64 0.4.1-4.fc18
@koji-override-1/$releasever
fprintd-pam.x86_64 0.4.1-4.fc18
@koji-override-1/$releasever
libfprint.x86_64 0.5.0-2.fc18 installed
libfprint-devel.x86_64 0.5.0-2.fc18 installed
Thank you in advance.
j
10 years, 4 months
Weird network problem
by Phil Dobbin
Hi, all.
I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning
always the same addresses from a dynamic IP.
A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the machines
running Fedora 17 always fails first time to connect to the network:
launch Thunderbird, no start screen, first attempt to check mail, it
tells me that there's no network connection, second attempt it connects.
The scheduled DejaDup backup always fails with no network but will run
manually no problem. Firefox can't find Google but the Nagios
web interface is fine as is all the cli stuff (ping, ssh, etc).
Most annoyingly, yum update goes through every mirror before partially
downloading part of the updates & if the updates are large, it takes
about three attempts to get them all installed.
I'd like to clear this up naturally especially as in the next couple of
weeks I'll be upgrading this box to Fedora 18 & the last thing I need is
a dodgy network connection.
All the machines below are on the same LAN & they all work fine after
the IP address change, it's only the Fedora box that's causing problems.
Any help appreciated. I'm stuck.
Cheers,
Phil...
--
currently (ab)using
CentOS 5.9 & 6.4, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, Spherical &
That Damn Cat, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise,
Quantal & Raring
GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc
10 years, 6 months
HDA jack retasking
by Raman Gupta
I have Intel HDA Audio on my motherboard (Asus P9X79 PRO). This
chipset has the capability to retask jacks for another purpose, for
example changing a line out jack to a headphone jack.
Has anyone successfully retasked an audio jack (specifically, on my
motherboard, the blue Line Out jack) to a headphone?
I found a post on pulseaudio-discuss re. this hda-jack-retask program
which seems to imply it can be done, but it didn't seem to work (I
didn't try every available combination however):
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2011-December/01...
Regards,
Raman
10 years, 6 months
odd issue booting F19 with LUKS partition
by Fred Smith
hi gang!
I've put F19 on my Acer Aspire One (dual-core Atom) where it mostly runs
just fine.
but I've noticed one oddity (by no means a show-stopper) during boot:
when it prompts for the LUKS password (for the encrypted /home partition)
the box for password entry flashes on the screen, then the screen goes
blank for 30 seconds (or so) then the box appears again.
I noticed a day or two ago that if there's a bright lamp shining on the
screen when it is in that blank state that the box is in fact still drawn
there, but it appears that the screen backlight has been shut off--I can
still see the image of it faintly in the bright light.
Everything else regarding screen behavior is fine, but this one is
pretty consistently occurring every system boot.
This did not occur immediately after installation, but I first noticed
it only a week (or so) ago (sorry, I wasn't taking notes...) so one
wonders if some update has caused it.
Any ideas on this one?
Thanks!
Fred
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------
10 years, 6 months
Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19
by Powell, Michael
Has anyone tried to get native Optimus running on a Fedora 19 box? When I attempt it, I get a blank black screen. I posted on the Nvidia forums, but no one has replied yet and I'm getting anxious ;-)
The general consensus is that the kernel must be 3.9 or higher, and I am running 3.9.9-302. The Nvidia readme<http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86-ARM/319.32/README/randr14...> indicates CONFIG_DRM has to be enabled and the following driver interfaces present:
drm_gem_prime_export
drm_gem_prime_import
gem_prime_pin
gem_prime_get_sg_table
gem_prime_import_sg_table
gem_prime_vmap
gem_prime_vunmap
I have verified that CONFIG_DRM is enabled within the kernel as a module and it's loaded, but when I attempted to verify the list of module symbols, I only found two (the ones in bold).
The way I determined this information was through:
`cat /boot/config-3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64 | grep CONFIG_DRM`
`cat /lib/modules/3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64/modules.symbols | grep gem_prime`
Am I missing something or does it appear that F19 kernel is missing vital parts for native Nvidia Optimus support?
For those more interested, here is the post<https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/551709/linux/319-23-the-infamous...> on the nvidia forums.
10 years, 6 months
Copy-pasting without transferring format
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello,
I would like to be able to copy-paste text without transferring the
format. I'm using F19 with KDE.
Currently, when I copy-paste (between Firefox, LibreOffice, etc),
formatting like font, font size and font attributes get also copied and
pasted. But I am looking for a way to copy-paste such that the format of
the original text is discarded and instead the format of the target
document is used, as if I had typed the text on the keyboard.
(My wife uses the following trick on Windows: copy-paste text into
URL-field of the browser, then copy-paste from URL-field to destination).
Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker
IT Project Lead at PanGenX (http://www.pangenx.com)
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
10 years, 6 months
SSH problem with kernel 3.10.9-200
by SternData
Is it just me or is anyone else seeing this?
Description of problem:
Using SSH to access files on remote system (but local to my LAN). Using
arrow key to scroll through files or up/down in bash_history or left or
right in current command.
Works fine with 3.10.7-200.
When using kernel 3.10.9-200, cursor stops moving and characters are
either not being transmitted or are not echoing back. Have to wait for
3-5 seconds to be able to continue typing.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.10.9-200
How reproducible:
SSH to another system. vi into a file. Press down-arrow and hold it.
Response will stop after 10-15 lines.
Fedora 19 64 bit fully up-to-date as of 2013-08-31
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003181
--
-- Steve
10 years, 6 months