Bug 1217652

I guess yast2-network uses an agent based on libhd. I am not sure if it's enough that the kernel modules are suddenly available; it might also need a rebuilt libd (hardware detection, the basis of the 'hwinfo' command; part of package 'hwinfo').

'libhd', of course.

Steffen, any input from your side?

Michal, Knut?

hwinfo just presents the kernel module info; it does not check any modprobe
configuration files. So whether or not a module is blacklisted does not matter.

What yast makes of this, I've no idea.

> I am not sure if it's enough that the kernel modules are suddenly available;
> it might also need a rebuilt libd

To be clear: hwinfo parses modules.alias from the running kernel. An
explicit database update is not needed.

I think, hwinfo is not the problem as you can see in my first post.

It shows both modules and also shows the active ones.

> Driver Info #0:
>    Driver Status: r8169 is not active
>    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8169"
>  Driver Info #1:
>    Driver Status: r8168 is active
>    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8168"

But yast2 lan (networksettings) shows only r81689 or automatic.
r8168 is missing.

Same if I install broadcom-wl, only bcma is available (but is not the proper one for my Card), wl is missing.

Stephan

I think, hwinfo is not the problem as you can see in my first post.

It shows both modules and also shows the active ones.

> Driver Info #0:
>    Driver Status: r8169 is not active
>    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8169"
>  Driver Info #1:
>    Driver Status: r8168 is active
>    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8168"

But yast2 lan (networksettings) shows only r8169 or automatic.
r8168 is missing.

Same if I install broadcom-wl, only bcma is available (but is not the proper one for my Card), wl is missing.

Stephan

I narrowed it down to this code:

https://github.com/yast/yast-network/blob/master/src/lib/y2network/hwinfo.rb#L232-L238


    def drivers
      driver = @hwinfo.fetch("drivers", []).first
      return [] unless driver

      modules = driver.fetch("modules", [])
      modules.map { |m| Driver.new(*m) }
    end


I am not sure if that '.first' is significant here.

Knut, Michal?

(In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #9)
> I narrowed it down to this code:
> 
> https://github.com/yast/yast-network/blob/master/src/lib/y2network/hwinfo.
> rb#L232-L238
> 
> 
>     def drivers
>       driver = @hwinfo.fetch("drivers", []).first
>       return [] unless driver
> 
>       modules = driver.fetch("modules", [])
>       modules.map { |m| Driver.new(*m) }
>     end
> 
> 
> I am not sure if that '.first' is significant here.

I will take a look, it looks like a clear candidate to be fixed / checked as it should select the active one instead of the first one.

(In reply to Stephan Hemeier from comment #8)
> I think, hwinfo is not the problem as you can see in my first post.
> 
> It shows both modules and also shows the active ones.
> 
> > Driver Info #0:
> >    Driver Status: r8169 is not active
> >    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8169"
> >  Driver Info #1:
> >    Driver Status: r8168 is active
> >    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8168"
> 
> But yast2 lan (networksettings) shows only r8169 or automatic.
> r8168 is missing.
> 
> Same if I install broadcom-wl, only bcma is available (but is not the proper
> one for my Card), wl is missing.
> 
> Stephan

It should be fixed by:

https://github.com/yast/yast-network/pull/1347

Thanks, Knut!


The fix should arrive in Leap 15.5 / SLE-15 SP5 as yast2-network-4.5.22.

Excuse for the late answer.

Thanks for your fix, now I can see my drivers as before.

Stephan

SUSE-RU-2024:0040-1: An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Category: recommended (moderate)
Bug References: 1217652
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 (src): yast2-network-4.5.22-150500.3.8.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 (src): yast2-network-4.5.22-150500.3.8.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 (src): yast2-network-4.5.22-150500.3.8.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 (src): yast2-network-4.5.22-150500.3.8.1
Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (src): yast2-network-4.5.22-150500.3.8.1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (src): yast2-network-4.5.22-150500.3.8.1

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