Mike Fleetwood wrote:
On 31 January 2013 23:34, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com>
wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 06:19 AM, Mike Fleetwood wrote:
>> 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> WiFi enabled by radio
>> killswitch; enabled by state file
>>
>>
>> Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when broken after
>> --8<--
>>
>> Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiFi disabled by
>> radio killswitch; enabled by state file
>
> yum install rfkill
>
> Then provide the output of "rfkill list"
Solved now. Bit of a brown paper bag moment. I must have unknowingly
disabled wifi, but exactly when I was testing that kernel.
Fixed by:
# yum install rfkill
# rfkill list all
0: eeepc-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes <-- HERE
Hard blocked: no
...
# rfkill unblock all
(Or press [Fn][F2]).
I was just a bit dismayed to see that software blocking wifi removes
the wifi device line from the output of lspci:
01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X
Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Don't be dismayed, that's why it's useful. It really keeps the driver
from being
loaded, and that's a good thing. Why do you want this? Because Fedora doesn't
work as shipped with the majority of wireless adaptors, who's vendors have a
license which fails the Fedora purity test. By blocking the unclean adaptor
completely you can plug in a USB model which will work well enough to download
the drivers which work and install them.
--
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