Bug 743969 - Wifi unaccessible after system update
Summary: Wifi unaccessible after system update
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-06 15:38 UTC by Jayrome
Modified: 2011-10-24 19:03 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-10-24 19:03:16 UTC
Type: ---


Attachments (Terms of Use)
dmesg, lsmod (25.22 KB, application/octet-stream)
2011-10-06 15:38 UTC, Jayrome
no flags Details

Description Jayrome 2011-10-06 15:38:03 UTC
Created attachment 526732 [details]
dmesg, lsmod

Description of problem:
F16 Beta LiveCD. Wifi worked well out of the box, then got disabled after applying system updates.

NETGEAR WNA1100

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc16.x86_64


How reproducible:
Strong

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the LiveCD
2. Apply system updates
3. Reboot
  
Actual results:
Wireless functionality is unaccessible (like there's none).

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2011-10-06 16:41:51 UTC
which driver is this ?

looking at the diff post-rc8, there's not much that changed in wireless, so this shouldn't be too hard to narrow down.

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_2p2_initvals.h |    2 
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c                |   10 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-core.c             |    4 
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-hcmd.c             |    2 
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c               |    4 
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl3945-base.c         |    8 -
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl4965-base.c         |   10 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c              |   30 +++---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c                   |    1

Comment 2 Jayrome 2011-10-07 04:26:28 UTC
This is ath9k.

Comment 3 Jayrome 2011-10-07 04:35:00 UTC
ath9k_htc	Netgear	WNA1100	0x0846	0x9030

(http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB)

Comment 4 Jayrome 2011-10-07 11:25:15 UTC
Today after starting my computer I plugged the card out and back in, and it works. There's probably something to be changed in the installation script.


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