Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Andy Green <andy <at> warmcat.com> writes: > >>> and simply reboot to get the interface up - but it throws an error message >> What exactly is the error message? What is in dmesg? > > The console message was: > Device wlan0 does not seem to be present, > delaying installation. > > I'll run again and check dmesg later IIRC recently there was a change to the version of iwl3945 firmware that was required by the newer driver... on F7 you needed at least iwlwifi-firmware-2.14.3-2 If that's the problem then you'll see something about it in dmesg. The firmware is part of Fedora, maybe try installing it (in the case you added the older firmware by hand from the driver project site) or updating it. -Andy