Re: Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

[Larry Finger <Larry Finger lwfinger net>]

On 01/17/2012 08:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 08:38 AM, Dan Winship wrote:
> > On 01/17/2012 08:14 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > Oh, this is on a Lenovo x120e where I see the following in the log
> > > messages:
> > >
> > > Jan 16 22:16:42 lx120e kernel: [81433.007709] rtl8192c_common: Loading
> > > firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
> > The driver for that chipset is apparently broken in the current kernel:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729618
> >
> > (There are links to various testing kernels with different patches in
> > that bug, but it's hard to tell from the comments if they fix the
> > problem...)
>
> Now why does that not supprise me? I did notice one update to the driver a while
> back. And I have 'real work' (spec writing!) to do to test f17...
>
> But it does not address the removal of information from the UI nor the control
> over SSID selection/control.

That Fedora bug report has nothing to do with this problem - that bug was mostly 
due to placing the firmware loading message in the wrong place.

Larry