Hi Folks, I'll try and keep this long story short, and explain the subject line, .... Yesterday I was given a Compag Presario F700 laptop. It was running Vista with problems of intermittant hanging. I tested the memory with memtest86+ for 6+ hours (11 complete passes, no errors). I checked out the harddrive (120GB SATA) with smart and it only has 1 remapped sector, and no other obvious problems. So, I installed F14.x86_64. Vanilla install, wiped everything else off the computer, let the installer partition/format/install what it needed to. Seemed to work, the system booted, but the wireless was not working. lspci showed it to be a Broadcom 4311 (rev 2) chip. Some Googling around showed that I needed to install the wl driver, so I configured rpmfusion repos and installed it. After a short period, NM found it and showed me the surrounding networks, so I disconnected the ethernet and connected to my wireless. I worked for 5+ hours on this laptop before suspending it for the night (I closed the lid, that suspended the laptop). When I got up today and restored from suspend, the wireless remained disabled. A couple of reboots did not bring the wireless connection back! After some fruitless re-installs of kmod-wl, I discovered that lspci no longer tells me that I have a wireless chip. Indeed, when I look back into /var/log/messages for the latest reboot, there is no longer any detection of the chipset when I boot. Yet, I can clearly see where the chipset was detected yesterday when I booted before installing the wl drivers! I've played with the enable/disable wireless switch on the front of the laptop, but nothing I do seems to lets the latest F14 kernel detect the wireless controller anymore. My first question is: Could this be heat related? My second question is: Could this be due to me suspending the laptop last night instead of just shutting it down? My third question is: How can I get it back???? -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
