Bug 102344
| Summary: | Cannot connect to Airport Extreme if it is in 802.11b/g compatibility mode | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tom Ball <tom.ball> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-14 04:15:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Red Hat Linux doesn't really speak 802.11g yet. Your best bet to get this fixed is to get the upstream kernel drivers fixed so that this works; I don't think we'll do much work specifically in this area. I wasn't interested in 802.11g support, as my Linux system has an Orinoco 802.11b. This fairly vanilla card was able to connect with WinXP to the Airport Extreme in 802.11g/b mode, which is supposed to be backwards-compatible with 802.11b. It isn't using the current wireless support in RH9, but is in WinXP, Win98, and OS/X. Should I report this to the wireless-tools package owners? |
Description of problem: I cannot connect to an Apple Airport Extreme (newest) wireless hub with RH9. If I boot in WinXP, it connects without issue. The hub also talks to Win98 and OS/X machines here. When I changed the default protocol the hub uses from 802.11b/g compatibility mode to just 802.11b, I am able to connect from RH9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 25-8 How reproducible: Configure Airport Extreme hub to use 802.11b/g mode (its default), then try to connect using "ifup eth0". Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure Airport Extreme hub using Apple's Airport Utility 2. Set protocol to 802.11b/g 3. Save, which causes the hub to reset with the new setting. Actual results: No connection to wireless hub. Expected results: A working connection. Additional info: The 802.11b/g compatibility mode is only available with the Airport Extreme, not earlier Airport hubs. I am guessing here, but this problem may be present with other 802.11g hubs as well.