Bugzilla – Bug 209413
ipw-firmware on addon cd (instructions in Yast)
Last modified: 2006-11-15 15:34:45 UTC
While installing openSUSE 10.2, the Intel WLAN Card (driver ipw2200) was completely detected. After the restart of the notebook, wlan was still not working. Going back to yast, trying to edit the wlan interface, It tries to install the ipw-firmware package, which can not be found (because I decided not to download the addon cd in first instance). The error message in this case could be a bit more helpful, like guiding the poeple to use the addon cd in this case. Especialy during the basic setup, an information about the missing package is missing totally. If I can help you any further, let me know.
We should get this working for 10.2.
OK, I have a fix (including not only Intel firmware, but also all possible netcard firmwares that are on AddOn CD), but: Now installation sources are searched for availability of the firmware automatically, without asking. Which is good from the point of view that user is asked to make some decision (i.e. to add a new installation source) only in case when required packages are not available, otherwise he/she doesn't have to care. But e.g. in case of slow internet connection searching all available inst. sources may be quite time-consuming and in that case, user could be prompted if he/she really wants to do the search. Andreas, what do you think ?
Sorry if I bother, but this solution looks like a henn/egg problem to me: how do you expect somebody to check the internet installation sources over his WLAN interface to get the WLAN Firmware from there? In case he's installing using FTP and a wired connection, the solution might work; but for the case I described in comment #0, installation is performed from CD, and the addon-cd should be used (I'm not sure if this is addressed in your solution yet)
What exactly do you search? Everything should be setup and the repos should be populated already, so I do not see a problem here.
All available repos (CD, DVD, network - if defined) are searched if they contain appropriate firmware package. If it is not found on any of them, user is notified that he/she needs to add Add-On CD to his/her installation sources. In case of CD/DVD (which is usually the case when no network is present - be it e.g. because the primary NIC is the wireless card that needs a firmware), the search is done pretty fast. But in case the wireless NIC is the secondary one and the primary net connection is slow, the search for firmware may take quite some time.
ok, so for the case where wireless is primary, the problem seems to be quiet nice solved. Will this already be in Beta1? Then I'm gratefully wolunteering to test this again (ups: my poor factory installation :-) ) For all cases, I think it's important to give a feedback to the user before a scan over the network be performed. Maybe with an automatic timeout of 15 seconds, defaulting to yes (for lazy me that are always walking away from the stations) Comments?
Talked to lslezak, libzypp caches information about the packages locally, so even in case of network inst. sources on slow network connection, the search for firmware is done really fast. Sorry for the useless fuss :-| So I leave the fix as it is i.e. notify the user to add Add-on CD to installation sources if the firmware package is not found. I'll submit the package today, but I'm not sure if it makes to beta1.
It will not make beta1.
Then I'll test it when beta 2 is out. I'll probably skip the installation of beta1 in this case and continue on the factory tree (which btw already says to be beta1)
Finally fixed in yast2-network 2.14.6 (will go to beta2)
*** Bug 221235 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***