So, iwlwifi is being not berry berry good to me on my ThinkPad T60p. Add to this the yuckiness that kills the kernel if I tax the wired e1000 adapter, and voila! A recipe for me having to avoid running Rawhide for testing.
I don’t have a surplus of machines around, just the workstation my wife and daughter use, the laptop I use, and an old machine running my public services that needs to stay happy at all costs. So if it doesn’t work on my laptop, I don’t get to use it. I’m a bit sad right now, because I was really hoping to take Rawhide on the road with me next week on a business trip. If neither my wired nor my wireless networking work, I’m pretty much back to FC6 for now. ?
Given you have a T60, that should give you virt support, you could always run rawhide in a virtual machine…
You actually have a few other options than just going back to FC6…
* Just grab the FC6 kernel and just go back to the FC6 kernel
* Download the old ipw3945 module, rmmod iwlwifi, insert ipw3945, go from there
* Fix things *grin*
Also, grab a copy of the 3056 kernel (if you can’t find it, let me know and I can put it up somewhere) and see if it’s better for you with iwlwifi… it seems to be relatively reasonable. Later kernels have a mac80211 stack update that seems to have broken things.
Re: virt — yes, that’s true. I actually also have VMware Workstation, provided by the office, but I wanted to try taking the Nestea plunge. 🙂
I was using the 3066 kernel; perhaps I will try the 3056 to see if things work better that way. I’ve been a little overwhelmed with other work and haven’t had time to track iwlwifi in Fedora to see status; I just kind of blindly installed it after anaconda seemed to be working well on Friday on my office test machine. 😉