Bug 116325

Summary:	SuSe 10.0 RC1 Centrino WLAN bug
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Trevor Lowing <tlowing>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Third Party Developer/Partner	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Suse Logs

Description Trevor Lowing 2005-09-10 12:41:49 UTC

Installed full RC1 on a Dell Latitude D810 with Centrino chipset. WLAN card was
recognized and YaST let me "configure it" under Network Devices/Network Card
"Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" without error but device would not operate. I
manually deleted the WLAN in YaST, tracked down ipw-firmware-5-6.noarch.rpm and
installed it and the WLAN began operating correcly. Centrino chipsets are
becoming very common. This is double annoying because YaST pretends to configure
the device but KWifiManager does not see it.

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-12 07:07:20 UTC

Attach YaST logs, please.

http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST

Thanks

Comment 2 Trevor Lowing 2005-09-12 17:20:07 UTC

Created attachment 49658 [details]
Suse Logs

tgz file

Comment 3 Martin Vidner 2005-09-12 22:19:31 UTC

Hwinfo did detect that ipw-firmware.rpm is needed. But unfortunately the logs 
you attached start on Sep 11 whereas the bug occurred on Sep 10, so the 
information is not reliable. Please try to reproduce the bug again and give me 
the logs that come out of it:
It should not be necessary to reinstall. Remove the firmware rpm, remove the 
card configuration in yast and reboot, then set it up again.

Comment 4 Joachim Gleissner 2005-09-13 16:06:27 UTC

Well, openSUSE does not ship with firmware packages, so YaST can not install  
it. Maybe YaST should refuse to configure cards for which it couldn't install  
the firmware, or at least insistently warn about it.

Comment 5 Martin Vidner 2006-08-28 11:52:26 UTC

Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network.

Comment 6 Katarina Machalkova 2006-10-24 16:23:59 UTC

I believe this is now fixed in SUSE Linux 10.2 (beta2 will be the first one to contain the fix).

We ship binary firmware for Intel wireless cards on Add-On CD since 10.1. In 10.2 the bug is worked around completely. If you choose to configure your Intel wireless card in YaST, it detects ipw-firmware is needed, scans available installation sources and if the package is found, it is installed. If not found, user is advised to add Add-On CD to his/her installation sources and try again. 

Unfortunately, I cannot backport the fix to 10.0. So if you don't mind upgrading ... ;-)