Bug 103043

Summary:	cannot configure ThinkPad on-board Ethernet
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Glenn Holmer <gholmer>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	adrian.schroeter, aj
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	All
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Glenn Holmer 2005-08-09 14:42:02 UTC

In network setup, the card is described as:
IBM 82801DB PRO/100 VE(MOB) Ethernet Controller
But when trying to configure it, this message is displayed:
"These packages need to be installed:
ipw-firmware"
Then a dialog box "reading package information", then "The required packages are
not installed. The configuration will be aborted."
ipw-firmware does not seem to be included on the SUSE 10 beta 1 CDs.

IBM ThinkPad T40, model 2373-19U.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-09 14:51:48 UTC

Are we allowed to add this firmware?

Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-09 15:36:20 UTC

This is not open source software, we will not distribute it as part of opensuse.

Comment 3 Bjoern Jacke 2005-08-09 22:41:26 UTC

you will probably get that message when you want to configure the wireless card,
not the above mentioned ethernet adaptor. Othrerwise there is something broken.

Comment 4 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-10 09:28:55 UTC

I guess YaST detects a Intel PRO/Wireless card and therefore wants to install    
the firmware package, which fails on opensuse. I think YaST should not abort    
at that point, but when the user tries to configure the WLAN adapter actually.

Comment 5 Martin Vidner 2005-08-11 14:10:23 UTC

One bug is that yast confuses the wired and wireless cards (bug 102945). 
 
The other is, I assume, that the wireless card is proposed even though the 
required package is not available.

Comment 6 Glenn Holmer 2005-08-12 12:58:26 UTC

I saw something similar when I installed on my desktop machine, which has two
PCI network cards.  After configuring the first one, the second one came up with
just a single eth-id available, and it was for the first card.  So when I tried
to configure it, I got "Configuration eth-id... already present".

Comment 7 Martin Vidner 2005-08-12 13:02:40 UTC

That is also bug 102945.

Comment 8 Glenn Holmer 2005-08-28 02:26:14 UTC

Works correctly in beta3.

Comment 9 Martin Vidner 2006-08-28 11:52:22 UTC

Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network.

Comment 10 Michal Zugec 2007-02-20 10:30:20 UTC

Closed according comment #8 - WORKSFORME