I cannot get wireless to work on my new Sony VAIO VPCEG laptop. It has the ar9285 chip in it. I am thinking this is a bug in the driver and wondering what I should do about it. Before I file an official bug report (with Fedora?), I want to know if anybody else has a machine with this chip in it that is working. I'd like to rule out my own stupidity first. I can state the following: 1) There is a hardware wireless switch, and it is on 2) I have tried both 2.6.38 and 2.6.40 kernels. 3) I have tried the latest compat-wireless driver from kernel.org 4) iwconfig can see the wlan0 device, but ifconfig does not. 5) Clicking wireless within NetworkManager: a) Airplane Mode shows as ON b) Wireless shows as unavailable c) Clicking wireless briefly turns it on and Disconnected, but then it goes right back to Off/Unavailable d) Turning off Airplane Mode appears to work, but doesn't change anything in c) above. 6) The wireless works fine in Windows 7 What is *really* frustrating about this is that it briefly worked a couple of times. During the install, it showed a list of available wireless networks and I chose mine, and entered the password. Then once, after several reboots for various reasons, it actually came up and worked, but as soon as I rebooted again, I was back to the same old same old and it has not worked since. Does this sound like a kernel driver bug or something stupid I did? Would it make sense to file a bugzilla against the kernel? Any chance this would work if I installed F14 instead of F15? Obviously, without wireless, the laptop is a $600 paperweight. --Greg -- 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
