Bug 103043 - cannot configure ThinkPad on-board Ethernet
Summary: cannot configure ThinkPad on-board Ethernet
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: i686 All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Michal Zugec
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Reported: 2005-08-09 14:42 UTC by Glenn Holmer
Modified: 2007-02-20 10:30 UTC (History)
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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