Bug 1015598

Summary: D-Link System DWA-131 is not recognised as a wireless adapter
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Saggi Mizrahi <smizrahi>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: bazulay, cb-rhbugz, dcbw, smizrahi
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Fixed In Version: NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-17.git20131003.fc20 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-11-18 21:06:48 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Saggi Mizrahi 2013-10-04 14:56:07 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading to f20 my dlink usb adapter stopped being recognized as a wireless adapter and is only recognized as an Ethernet adapter.

Since iwconfig recognizes it I assume it's a NetworkManager problem.

$ lsusb
....
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 07d1:3303 D-Link System DWA-131 802.11n Wireless N Nano Adapter(rev.A1) [Realtek RTL8192SU]
....

$ iwconfig 
enp0s20u4  unassociated  Nickname:"rtl_wifi"
          Mode:Auto  Access Point: Not-Associated   Sensitivity:0/0  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
lo        no wireless extensions.

em1       no wireless extensions.

$ dmesg |grep firmw
[    3.551592] usb 3-2: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"

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Comment 1 Saggi Mizrahi 2013-10-04 14:57:58 UTC
Created attachment 807728 [details]
Network manager window

Here showing the network manager window showing it as an ethernet instead of a wireless adapter

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2013-10-04 20:28:20 UTC
What does 'iw dev enp0s20u4 info' say?

Also, what does "journalctl -b | grep WEXT" say?

Next, what does "iwgetid --protocol" say?

Comment 3 Saggi Mizrahi 2013-10-04 22:16:11 UTC
$ iw dev enp0s20u4 info
command failed: No such device (-19)

$ journalctl -b | grep WEXT
Oct 04 17:10:03 funkotron NetworkManager[773]: <info> WEXT support is enabled

$ iwgetid --protocol
<no output>

Comment 4 Dan Williams 2013-10-16 15:43:38 UTC
*** Bug 1019525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Dan Williams 2013-10-16 16:04:19 UTC
cb-rhbugz.uk, what does your device report for:

iwconfig wlan0

?

Comment 6 cb-rhbugz 2013-10-16 16:11:06 UTC
$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     802.11bgn  Nickname:"rtl8192E"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.417 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=10/100  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=-100 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Comment 7 Dan Williams 2013-10-16 17:23:08 UTC
Also, everyone please run:

cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent

and report the output.  Thanks!

Comment 8 Dan Williams 2013-10-16 17:30:44 UTC
I believe I've fixed the problem upstream, the fix will appear in the next snapshot.

Comment 9 cb-rhbugz 2013-10-16 17:32:31 UTC
I get:

$ cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent
INTERFACE=wlan0
IFINDEX=3

Comment 10 cb-rhbugz 2013-11-03 22:30:20 UTC
FWIW, this horrible script can be used to work around the problem.

#!/bin/bash

rm -Rf /tmp/nmhack
mkdir /tmp/nmhack
echo 'DEVTYPE=wlan' > /tmp/nmhack/uevent
grep INTERFACE /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent >> /tmp/nmhack/uevent
grep IFINDEX /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent >> /tmp/nmhack/uevent
mount --bind /tmp/nmhack/uevent /sys/class/net/wlan0/uevent

systemctl restart NetworkManager

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2013-11-14 17:40:35 UTC
NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-17.git20131003.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-17.git20131003.fc20

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2013-11-16 07:12:55 UTC
Package NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-17.git20131003.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-17.git20131003.fc20'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-21504/NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-17.git20131003.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2013-11-18 21:06:48 UTC
NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-17.git20131003.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.