Re: Wireless stopped working- F12

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> woodson2 writes:
>
>>
>> I installed F12 around the time it was released and it picked up my
>> wireless
>> card and worked like a charm.....Suddenly last week everything stopped
>> working and I receive what appears to be a driver error when wlan0 tries
>> to
>> load.
>>
>> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>> invalid argument "if902c7885".
>>
>>
>> lspci reveals
>>
>> Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
>> Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
>> Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [1028:0005]
>>
>>
>> A quick google cam of with plenty of issues related to older versions of
>> Fedora but nothing in F12..Any ideas?
>
> Did you install the latest set of updates, which included a kernel 2.6.32.
> If so, you may have a problem with the new kernel. Try booting with the
> previous kernel.

If all else fails try using the latest drivers from
compat-wireless[1], this fixed the disassociation problem and poor
signal quality with the atheros wireless chipsets for me.

Richard

[1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download
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