Description of problem: Installing Fedora 9 on my laptop (Dell D820 w/ IPW3945 wireless and Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752 wired) all networking works perfectly. However, on doing a yum upgrade and pulling down the 2.6.25.6-55 kernel RPM, networking grinds to a halt. Rebooting to the original 2.6.25-14 kernel networking all goes back to normal. I've installed both x86_64 and i386 versions of Fedora 9 and have seen the same problem. And I have installed both versions at least 3 times. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install base Fedora 9 2. Upgrade to 2.6.25.6-55 kernel 3. Reboot Actual results: Do anything network related: traffic is slow, web pages do not come back most of the time, SSH sessions will just freeze, yum is unable to hit mirrors Expected results: Networking to return results. Additional info:
Can you try a kernel from Koji? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=53647
I downloaded and installed the mentioned kernel. On rebooting to that kernel and logging in, I got a message that the kernel failed. I allowed it to send the failure message back to kerneloops for diagnosis. I'm now back to the stock kernel that came with F9.
Not sure what might be the problem w/ -70.fc9, but could I persuade you to try -57.fc9? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=52456 Many have reported wireless-related problems w/ -55.fc9 and iwl3945. -57.fc9 seems to fix most of those issues (at leas the ones which were new w/ -55.fc9).