On Thursday, August 11, 2011 02:26:45 PM Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > 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???? You might want to check out this page on linux wireless: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 I think you need to install the firmware for that chip. The method used is on the above page. I have never used the RPMFusion method so I can not comment on that, but with the information on this page I was able to get my b43 chip working properly. Peter -- 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
