Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Sebastian Günther" <samson@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:56:19
Message-Id: 20090629125611.7858b63f@guenther-roetgen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore by Marco
1 Am Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0200
2 schrieb Marco <listworks@×××××.com>:
3
4 > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk>
5 > wrote:
6 > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:41 +0200, Marco wrote:
7 >
8 > [...]
9 >
10 > > It looks like you installed a new microcode package two days ago,
11 > > that may be incompatible with your card. Have you tried rolling
12 > > back to the previous version?
13 >
14 > I just rolled back to iwl3945-ucode-15.28.1.6. Wireless is working
15 > again.
16 >
17 > Is the fact that the new version 15.32.2.9 does not work anymore
18 > something I should report in the bug database?
19 >
20
21 No, there are slotted versions of it. On purpose...
22
23 This is because of changes in kernel. I do not remember which version
24 of the Kernel required the new firmware. But it was definitely stated in
25 the elog of iwl3945-ucode, that there are compatibility issues with
26 some kernel versions.
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28 Sebastian
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore Vasya Volkov <my.pipes.burn@×××××.com>