On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 16:55 -0500, Don Levey wrote: > On 11/13/2013 16:20, Jim wrote: > > On 11/13/2013 03:32 PM, Don Levey wrote: > >> My wife's laptop was running fine on kernel 3.10.11-200: > >> Linux croweflies.the-leveys.us 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 > >> > >> ... > > > > In doing this yum will never update any kernel above kernel-3.10.11-200 > > and you should never have any more wireless > > problems until you upgrade to the next version of Fedora. That was really _bad_ advice. It would be extremely rare for a device to be randomly dropped from the kernel, especially one that is still modern and available. > Jim, > I had considered that, but am reluctant to purposely avoid new kernels > with potential fixes to other problems known and unknown. If support > was removed from the kernel, do you know if it was added in terms of > (a)kmod support? I've not yet seen anything about it. As you intuit, cutting oneself off from future kernel updates is an overreaction. If your device has stopped working, then open a bug. John -- John W. Linville Today's best will not be good enough linville@xxxxxxxxxx tomorrow -- continue to improve! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
