Some oddities after I ran yum update on FC4 on my Inspiron 4150 and
suddenly found I could no longer make a wifi connection.
System-config-network's wifi config had vanished, and clicking New
now only displayed "Other Wireless Card", even though cardmgr had
"correctly" identified my NetGear MA701 wifi card as a ZCOMAX
AirRunner/XI-300, as usual (a setting which always worked).
Oddly, the ZCOMAX entry is no longer in system-config-network's list
of cards, yet it is present in /etc/pcmcia/config. Where does the
list in system-config-network come from, if not from that file? And
how do I add to it? And where does system-config-network store its
currently-configured-connection devices? The parameters and keys are
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ where you would expect them, but
no trace of where it keeps the binding between /dev/eth{x} and the
physical device.
That was yesterday. Today cardmgr no longer recognises the Netgear
card. The update has obviously hosed something badly, but I don't
know how to start finding out what. The yum update updated dozens
of packages, including desktop apps as well as libraries. And there
was a kernel update as well (now 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4).
Suggestions welcome. How can I get yum (or rpm) to tell me exactly
*which* packges were involved in yesterday's update?
///Peter
