Bugzilla – Bug 106005
Update 9.3Pro->beta2 breaks ISDN
Last modified: 2006-11-14 15:19:55 UTC
I updated my router/storage system from a Suse Linux 9.3Pro to beta2. Everything worked fine, except that ISDN didn't work ("isdnctrl dial ippp0" returned an error)
Created attachment 46761 [details] Y2logs
What ISDN HW which drivers ?
Sorry I miss that the information is already in the old y2log files. According these you have a Fritz!Card PCI and you are using the AVM binonly drivers. These drivers are not included in OpenSUSE, OpenSUSE only contain GPL drivers and full OpenSource software. You can install the kernel-<type>-nongpl-<version>.rpm from ftp://ftp.suse.com (or better mirrors) path: /pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-Beta2-Extra/kernel-modules+firmware/CD1/suse/i586/ If ISDN is your only internet connection, you can change the ISDN driver temporary to HiSax until you install the drivers.
Switching to the HiSax driver worked perfect! It took less than 1 minute to solve this once I knew where the error was. However, I would have expected YaST to -tell me that the driver is not available any longer -suggest to try out the HiSax driver or get the rpm you named For me (and probably many others) ISDN is the only way to the internet, so a broken ISDN config after an update is a MAJOR showstopper.
I do not think that we can handle this in YaST. Maybe in the Release Notes. Adrian ?
You cannot handle this? All that is necessary is if ((driver_is_AVM_binonly)&&(package_not_available(AVM_binonly)) { switch_driver_to_HiSax; messagebox("Your ISDN driver..."); } Please don't tell me that this is too difficult!
Yes it is doable, but it's not that easy and here are more problems. 1. You want keep the driver and download the needed package or install self compiled driver. 2. The needed config change must be implemented for each card (and for some cards no alternativ driver exist), since the config is different. 3. At the moment all setup is the same for OpenSUSE and the other products, so you really need some extra info about what is included and what not. Missing driver package is not enough, since it maybe not be selected by all configurations. 4. It's too late, Installation flow and text are froozen with BETA1 (because translation process and manual printing is started), so adding some popup is not possible. 5. We didn't support cross product updates in the past.
I didn't find any mention of this in the RC1 release notes. Is it going to be there in the final version?
we will not fix this one anymore for 10.1, closing.