Description of problem: Installed Fedora-11-Beta-i586 as an upgrade to Fedora-10. Wireless was previously working in Fedora 10. After upgrade to Beta and then update to latest packages, wireless still wasn't working. Computer - Acer Aspire One Model # ZG5 various particulars, 160 Gb HD, 1 Gb RAM, 8.9 inch screen lspci -v and dmidecode output attached to bug report Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): various versions of kernels on this laptop since I got it... # grep kernel /var/log/yum.log Jan 15 21:00:38 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 Jan 15 21:12:35 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 Jan 27 11:24:58 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 Jan 27 11:26:08 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 Feb 19 10:36:05 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 Feb 19 10:41:14 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 Mar 02 15:30:29 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 Mar 02 15:31:42 Installed: kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 Wireless worked fine through all of Fedora 10 above Here's when/where it went wrong Apr 08 16:08:22 Installed: kernel-2.6.29.1-54.fc11.i586 How reproducible: Install Fedora-11-Beta and update on Acer Aspire One Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy an Acer Aspire One 2. Install Fedora-11-Beta Actual results: entries in /var/log/messages include... Apr 8 21:03:31 aspire-one kernel: acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras Apr 8 21:03:40 aspire-one NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_acer_wmi_rfkill_acer_wireless_wlan Wireless no workee Expected results: Wireless workee Additional info: Fix was relatively simple... modprobe -r acer_wmi which produced the following entry in /var/log/messages... Apr 9 15:58:40 aspire-one kernel: acer-wmi: Acer Laptop WMI Extras unloaded and I ended up adding... # cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-acer.conf blacklist acer_wmi Not sure if that was useful but it made sense to me.
Created attachment 339099 [details] lscpi -v output
Created attachment 339100 [details] dmidecode output
This was fixed April 3 and the updated kernel with the fix (2.6.29.1-52) has been available since April 7 .
I gather then the problem was the Fedora-11-Beta upgrade which included this kernel... kernel-2.6.29-0.258.2.3.rc8.git2.fc11.i586 and even though I upgraded after first boot, the kernel module was already loaded. Thanks - were you going to 'close' the bug report?
not fixed in F11 snapshot 1 with kernel-2.6.29.1-54.f11.i586
Switching back to assigned based on Steven's comment that it's not fixed with a newer revision than Chuck cited. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
If the machine in question is the hard-drive model, that should be fixed in the next kernel (after 2.6.29.1-73.) We were only blacklisting that module for the AAO with flash drive in the earlier update.
Steven, can you test with the next kernel when it shows up in Koji or Rawhide? Thanks. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
this behaviour has been fixed in F11 beta with kernel-2.6.2-9.1-85.fc11.i586 from koji, the thing is that as the acer_wmi module can't access anything on the acer aspire one's (all of the 8.9" versions anyway) wmi implementation so it should never be loaded on these machines, i never noticed any bad effects on F10 but i blacklisted it way back in december anyway just to be safe. anyway thanks for the fix :) phil
*kernel-2.6.29.1-85.fc11.i586 :)
Thanks for confirming the fix. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers