Bug 245706 - kernel 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 breaks wireless
Summary: kernel 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 breaks wireless
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2007-06-26 07:48 UTC by Charlie Colins
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-06-26 14:43:25 UTC
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Description Charlie Colins 2007-06-26 07:48:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
install of  2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 breaks wireless. Using Networkmanager,
ndiswrapper, wpa_supplicant

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
reboot to  2.6.20-1.2962.fc6

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reboot to  2.6.20-1.2962.fc6
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Actual results:
wireless fails. modprobe ndiswrapper returns "nidswrapper.lo not found" 
ndiswrapper.k0 is in the correct location, however.

Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2007-06-26 14:43:25 UTC 
You almost certainly need to update and/or rebuild & reinstall ndiswrapper.
To rebuild it you need the kernel-devel package that matches your new kernel.
If you got a prebuilt RPM package you need a new one.

In any case we can't support it.
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