Have you reported your behaviour in a bug report? I've found it on Fedora 16 as well (different hardware: iwl3945 & hp_wmi) so I'd point to your bug just to put it in context.
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Greg Woods <wo...@ucar.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 12:26 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > I cannot get wireless to work on my new Sony VAIO VPCEG laptop. It has > > the ar9285 chip in it. > > After screwing around with this for a day, I finally figured out what is > going on. For some reason, it was also loading the acer_wmi module, a > driver for a different type of wireless chip, and this was screwing > things up. As soon as I did "modprobe -r acer_wmi", then everything > worked. I just needed to blacklist this module > in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, and now the Atheros chip is working > even after a reboot. > > --Greg > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >
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