[Bug 655377] Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Beta: WIFI firmware not loading Sony Vaio VPCF136FM

[Michael E. Adams]

Well, I got the first part of my bug report correct. I was totally
confused! I will document my error for others to benefit from (and at
least get a good laugh).

This is my first hearing of something called WiMAX. The WiMAX address
was the only number on the bottom of my computer that resembled a MAC
address - which IT IS NOT. I have MAC address filtering set up on my
router and mistakenly configured it with my WiMAX address. Since I did
not want to reconfigure my router to perform my unencrypted connection
test, I used my neighbor's unencrypted router to test against (which
worked). It wasn't until I did "ifconfig" that I discovered what the
real MAC (HWaddr) address for my machine was. I entered this HWaddr in
my router's MAC address filter and am happy to report that WIFI on my
Sony Vaio VPCF136FM is fully operational under Ubuntu 10.10. My system
uses the Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (rev 5f)
network controller.

Sorry for the confusion.

Mike

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Ubuntu 10.10 Beta: WIFI firmware not loading Sony Vaio VPCF136FM
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