WARNING - kernel 2.6.23.14-107 and rt61pci driver.

[MrHappy]

Hi All

Just accepted the latest batch of updates and installed them.

Rebooted and my Edimax EW-7108PCG card would not connect to my router,

Kept asking for Wireless Network Secrets Required and the NetworkManager icon would just swirl around.

Restarted my notebook and selected the previous kernel, booted fine and NetworkManager was working again.

So I asked for help on IRC in #fedora, it was suggested I file a bug, signed up for bugzilla and searched for rt61pci and found the following post https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428697 which was my exact problem.

Turns out the 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 update breaks the rt61pci driver.

More help was required from #fedora on how to get and install 2.6.23.14-115.fc8

The following command was suggested but did not work for me.

sudo yum --enablerepo updates-testing update kernel

The solution that worked for me was too download the rpm from

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=32352

and install it with yum

sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck kernel-2.6.23.14-115.fc8.i686.rpm

Rebooted and my NetworkManager was connecting to my router again.

updated bugzilla with my experience so a fix will be rolled out for this bug.

updated https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-0984 saying it fixed my problem.

posted my experience here, a couple of hours after a standard kernel upgrade, hoping it will help out other people who get caught with the same problem.

and said thanks to the chap on irc :)

MrHappy

[Demz]

that would answer why the kernel update that was showing in updates was pulled? cause only the nvidia169.07-2 shows

[jonah1980]

hi i had this same problem. only now i've installed the 115 kernel my display driver has broken. and livna doesn't have an nvidia driver for 115 yet. and i tried downgrading my kernel but it seems fedora have removed the kernel i was on prior to this broken update so i can't go back to what i had!

[leigh123@linux]

that would answer why the kernel update that was showing in updates was pulled? cause only the nvidia169.07-2 shows

I wasn't aware that the kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 had been pulled ( it still shows as current here )

[root@localhost leigh]# yum list kernel
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Installed Packages
kernel.x86_64 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 installed
[root@localhost leigh]# yum list |grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64 169.07-1.lvn8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-32bit.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed

As for the nvidia driver 169.09-1 it is available from livna-testing but it didn't work for me so I made my own packages :cool:

[HMSS013]

is there any information on when the release of 2.6.23.14-115 to the standard Fedora Repository will be?!



personally i've been switching back and forth between 14-107 and 1-42 depending on my need for the nVidia driver for games or the WiFi driver for internet.

[Demz]

I wasn't aware that the kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 had been pulled ( it still shows as current here )

[root@localhost leigh]# yum list kernel
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Installed Packages
kernel.x86_64 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 installed
[root@localhost leigh]# yum list |grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64 169.07-1.lvn8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-32bit.x86_64 169.09-1.fc8 installed

As for the nvidia driver 169.09-1 it is available from livna-testing but it didn't work for me so I made my own packages :cool:
sorry i misslead you, , from what iv'e been reading the 2.6.23.14-115 is to replace the .107 kernel due to a wireless problem with 107? i still havent installed the 107 kernel

[GuyverScythe]

As for the nvidia driver 169.09-1 it is available from livna-testing but it didn't work for me so I made my own packages :cool:

Hey, I don't think that nvidia driver is available for x86_64 yet, as I can't find it in their repositories at all. My nvidia driver also broke. :(

Crazy kernel update! Just when I got everything nice and stable too.

[ShivaS]

The first thing I did after installing Fedora8 was to exclude kernel updates from yum config files. This way I know that none of the installed apps will break in case of a yum update.