On 12/19/06, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:41:18PM -0800, Christopher Stone wrote: > On 12/19/06, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Comments on the FC7 draft plan: > > > >8. Rock Solid Wireless > > > >I would ping John Linville too. He already makes kernel RPMs with > >enhanced wireless based on his upstream maintainership work. > > Indeed. My wireless card actually crashes the kernel. I've been > meaning to test John's kernel here: > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc6/ which supposedly fixes > this. Hmmmm...well, I hope so. Let me know if that is less than satisfactory... :-)
I installed your kernel and ran modprobe bcm43xx with whatever drivers I had originally installed and this worked, but I could not get my wireless card to work. I then rebooted into the normal kernel and tried modprobe bcm43xx again to see if it still crashed the kernel, but it actually worked. I then tried rmmod bcm43xx, installing a new firmware with fwcutter and then modprobe again but this time it crashed the kernel. I then started noticing that when I rebooted, the kernel is no longer recognizing my usb ports on my monitor. I rebooted into your kernel again and retested the modprobing stuff and it all seemed to work, but I could not get the wireless card to work. I'm afraid I am just not cut out for this kind of testing. I now have four useless usb ports on my monitor that used to work before all this, and that's why I hate testing this kind of stuff. I'm sorry I could not be of more help. About the only thing I can tell you is that I could not get the kernel to crash with your kernel, and I could get the current kernel to crash, and my usb ports on my monitor no longer work because of it. :( -Chris -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
