Hi Folks,
I'll try and keep this long story short, and explain the subject line,
....
Yesterday I was given a Compag Presario F700 laptop. It was running
Vista with problems of intermittant hanging.
I tested the memory with memtest86+ for 6+ hours (11 complete passes,
no errors). I checked out the harddrive (120GB SATA) with smart and it
only has 1 remapped sector, and no other obvious problems.
So, I installed F14.x86_64. Vanilla install, wiped everything else off
the computer, let the installer partition/format/install what it needed to.
Seemed to work, the system booted, but the wireless was not working.
lspci showed it to be a Broadcom 4311 (rev 2) chip. Some Googling
around showed that I needed to install the wl driver, so I configured
rpmfusion repos and installed it. After a short period, NM found it and
showed me the surrounding networks, so I disconnected the ethernet and
connected to my wireless. I worked for 5+ hours on this laptop before
suspending it for the night (I closed the lid, that suspended the laptop).
When I got up today and restored from suspend, the wireless remained
disabled. A couple of reboots did not bring the wireless connection
back! After some fruitless re-installs of kmod-wl, I discovered that
lspci no longer tells me that I have a wireless chip. Indeed, when I
look back into /var/log/messages for the latest reboot, there is no
longer any detection of the chipset when I boot. Yet, I can clearly see
where the chipset was detected yesterday when I booted before installing
the wl drivers! I've played with the enable/disable wireless switch on
the front of the laptop, but nothing I do seems to lets the latest F14
kernel detect the wireless controller anymore.
My first question is: Could this be heat related?
My second question is: Could this be due to me suspending
the laptop last night instead of just
shutting it down?
My third question is: How can I get it back????
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Kevin J. Cummings
kjch...@verizon.net
cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net
cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
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