latest kernel upgrade, no wireless now

[Fittersman]

after i updated the kernel last night (its like 2.22.26.85 or something) i have no wireless anymore. Right now im using the kernel 2.22.26.76 (or something like that) and i have wireless capabilites. Is there anyway that i can take the wireless drivers from this kernel and use em in the newer kernel? or anything i can do to make it have wireless?

another problem is that because fedora only stores two kernels on the grub loader, if i want to upgrade the kernel again to a higher version again later, this kernel with the working wireless will be deleted and if the newest kernel doesnt support my wireless card, im screwed.....

[cenomanien]

Hi,

Same problem here (but with iwl3945) on 2.6.22.7-85.fc7 kernel.
I would recommend you stay with the previous kernel 2.6.22.5-76.fc7.

As to the number of kernels yum keeps, modify the installonly_limit parameter in /etc/yum.conf as per :
# nano /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
### Added by me - cenomanien ###
installonly_limit=0
### -- ###

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
installonly_limit is the maximum number of kernels kept by yum; 0 keeps them all.

Good luck

[Fittersman]

thank you, i hope the next kernel will unbreak that problem :(

[Dogfacewoof]

If you were using NDISWRAPPER you will have to re-install it after the kernel upgrade

[Fittersman]

no, my wireless was just working with the kernel (if you know what i mean, i didnt have to do anything and it worked)

o yah, and the next kernel didnt fix it either.. I hope they fix that with the next one

[cigi]

you don't need to take drivers from any kernel to fix your problems... I would suggest you roll your own kernel from the source code to fix the problem. The next question is how do you roll you own kernel? well, there're millions of howtos on this subject in the internet. Just google something ike "kernel howto+linux" and you will get a whole lot of results to work on

I don't want to be too funny but having free access to the kernel source code should be enough for you to fix any kind of driver problem. We all must learn how to learn. DON'T wait for the next release... BUILD one yourself[U] !!!

[mklose]

Easier said than done for novices like myself :'(
But I'll take this as an opportunity to learn...