Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3622 mails)

["Francesco Teodori" <francesco.teodori@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fred,
that's what I did. Every time I upgrade, I do a fresh install,
formatting all the partitions except the home. Simply my wireless does
not work with the new drivers provided by 11.0. I need to use the old
ones. With the new ones the wireless is disabled and I cannot enable
it.
Francesco

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Francesco Teodori wrote:
> > I have an acer 5920g with wireless card PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. It uses
> > the module ipw3945. After upgradind to openSuSE 11.0, it stopped
> > working. I ported to openSuSE 11.0 the drivers from openSuSE 10.3 and
> > the card stared working again. I made some rpms, that are available
> > from my website
> > http://teodori.org/repository/utilities/opensuse11.0/current/64bit.html.
> > They are my system specific so I don't know if they can help you.
>
> Francesco, EVERY laptop upgrade I've done has later failed with Intel wifi
> chipsets! 11.0 simply doesn't install cleanly when doing an upgrade. I've
> had to do a clean install, formating all partitions except /home. Once done,
> wifi works. I have had some upgrades that did go well, but NOT laptops. I'm
> doing ONLY clean installs now (have at least 2 more weeks of it).....it's
> what's always been the best solution..........still is.
>
> Fred
>
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