I have a clevo M760T laptop.

It used to run ubuntu 10.10, recently i reformatted it to fedora 14 and now the wifi card does not work.

Heres the weird thing, the wifi card has a light on the laptop's front panel that says if its "enabled" (can be seen by the O/S, in ubuntu i would have no wlan0 interface until i enabled it this way, and it wouldnt show on lspci as far as i remember).

The wifi is enabled using the Fn-F11 combo. I know the F11 key works as i can fullscreen firefox with it, and I know the Fn keys as i can use the Fn-F5/6 combo to alter volume etc. No matter what i try i cant seen to be able to get that light on, or the card to appear in fedora.

This may be unreleated to fedora, maybe the card has broken, but it seems odd that that'd happen right when i installed fedora.

Annoyingly, I dont know what make / model wifi card it was so i dont know if its related to kernel modules or similar (and nothing showing for it in lspci). Just that it worked (including actually using it to go on the internet) in ubuntu 10.10, and does not now in fedora 14.

Any ideas of where to begin debugging this ?

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Had some progress. Found a ubuntu 10.10 cd in the bin (literally), and booting live from that the light works again. Its a realtek 8187B, and shows up on lsusb, not lspci. Now to get that working on fedora ! – Sirex Jan 19 '11 at 19:25
Hmmm, looks like a kernel recompile is needed. :( – Sirex Jan 19 '11 at 20:34
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Posting an answer as i've got this working now. I had to recompile the kernel to get the rtl8187 module into it. I dont know why fedora dosent enable this module by default, or if there's a better way to do this without the recompile. If anyone knows a better way please share !

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... when i disable it the entire os hangs witha kernel panic, but oh well ! – Sirex Jan 24 '11 at 8:21
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