[Mageia-dev] After last update net applet shows wrong status

Sun Jul 17 13:42:20 CEST 2011

Oliver Burger skrev 16.7.2011 19:20:
+> 2011/7/16 Wolfgang Bornath<molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>> Confirmed here as well. But it must be related to kernel change.
+>> Booting with previous kernel = wifi works, booting with new kernel =
+>> wifi does not work
+>> (The chip is recognized and I see the available access points but no
+>> connection possible)
+>> See also https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=782
+>
+> I just tried it. After rebooting into Kernel-2.6.38.8 the applet is
+> showing the status correct as online. Everything works.
+>
+> After rebooting into kernel-3.0.0 gain, the applet shows the status as
+> inactive, but wlan works. Since someone mentioned something about
+> suspend, I tried that as well. After resume, there is no change here.
+> The applet shows inactive, but the wlan works.
+>
+
+I wonder if we have some code somewhere checking for 2.6.* as the change 
+to 3.0 (as in 2 numbers only) would trigger a lots of breakages, wich is 
+why kernel identifies itself as 3.0.0 even if is 3.0
+
+--
+Thomas
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