Re: Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm htt-consult com>]

On 01/17/2012 08:38 AM, Dan Winship wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 08:14 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > Oh, this is on a Lenovo x120e where I see the following in the log
> > messages:
> >
> > Jan 16 22:16:42 lx120e kernel: [81433.007709] rtl8192c_common: Loading
> > firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
> The driver for that chipset is apparently broken in the current kernel:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729618
>
> (There are links to various testing kernels with different patches in
> that bug, but it's hard to tell from the comments if they fix the
> problem...)

Now why does that not supprise me?  I did notice one update to the 
driver a while back.  And I have 'real work' (spec writing!) to do to 
test f17...

But it does not address the removal of information from the UI nor the 
control over SSID selection/control.