Description of problem: Last night, I updated the kernel to 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5. As I always do, I restarted to see if everything worked, it seemed to, so I removed the previous kernel version. Today, my Broadcom 4306 wireless card cannot connect to my wireless network. After a few restarts, my wired ethernet device wasn't detected properly. (ifplugd should be automatically connecting me to the network, so...) When I typed ip addr as root, eth0 was not listed, but some other devid like eth1234 was. I couldn't connect that device to the network until I manually used modprobe natsemi There's some really weird stuff that started with my computer since last night and for some reason, I think I'm the only one it's happening to :-/ As with bug 196536, I get the version 20/19 warning for wireless extension, but I doubt that really has anything to do with my problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Restart computer 2. List network devices 3. Bring up eth1, try to connect Actual results: eth0 is not listed (natsemi is not automatically loaded) and eth1 cannot connect (but iwlist eth1 scan works fine) Expected results: natsemi should be automatically loaded I should be able to connect to my wireless network Additional info: I used to use ndiswrapper way back in the FC3 and FC4 days, so I got pretty used to strange issues with my wireless card, but was usually able to solve them after several minutes; not this time. (Now I'm going to try more stuff...)
I would have posted this earlier but for the wireless thing... This last time I restarted, natsemi loaded automatically, eth0 showed up properly, and it connected fine when connecting, so I think that was a temporary fluke.
Okay, I figured it out. It was me being stupid, not a bug at all :-/ Sorry for the spam.