Bug 1278805

Summary: After upgrade from 4.1.10-200fc22.86_64 to 4.2.3-200fc22.86_64 Wifi needs much larger signal strength to make Firefox work.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christoph van der Reijden <christophvanderreijden>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 22CC: dcbw, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, lkundrak, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab, psimerda, rkhan
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-07-19 18:56:14 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Attachments:
Description Flags
Requested info file 1 of 3
none
Requested info file 2 of 3
none
Requested info file 3 of 3 none

Description Christoph van der Reijden 2015-11-06 13:16:05 UTC
Description of problem:
After an upgrade from 4.1.10-200fc22.86_64 to 4.2.3-200fc22.86_64 my Wifi needs an unusual large signal strength to make Firefox work: This required a <1m distance from my WLan device. Before that upgrade a distance of about 15m was fine using exactly the same hardware. 

I never had this issue before with previous Fedora versions and/or upgrades.
I do not have the issue if I use 4.1.10-200fc22.86_64 or earlier Fedora versions and/or upgrades using exactly the same hardware. So, it is not a hardware-issue. 

Unfortunately, the issue continued after ugrading to 4.2.5-201fc22.x86_64. 



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot with Fedora 4.2.5-201fc22.x86_64 at 10m from WLan device. The Network manager shows a question mark instead of Wifi signal-strength. Firefox is not able to connect to websites.
2. Reduce the distance between PC and WLan-device to <1m. The Network manager shows bright Wifi-strength (3 bars). Firefox is able to connect to websites.
3. Reboot with Fedora 4.1.10-200fc22.x86_64 at 10m from WLan device. The Network manager shows bright Wifi-strength (3 bars). Firefox is able to connect to websites.

Actual results: The Network manager shows a question mark instead of Wifi signal-strength. Firefox is not able to connect to websites.


Expected results:The Network manager shows at least a Wifi-strength of 1 bar. Firefox is able to connect to websites.


Additional info: ifconfig wlp4s0 produced: wlp4s0: flags=4163<UP, Broadcast, Running, Multicast>   in all Fedora upgrades.

Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2015-11-09 10:44:22 UTC
You say that the behaviour changes based on the kernel you boot. So it seems like a Wi-Fi driver issue, not NetworkManager.

Would you please get more information so that kernel people can analyze the problem.

$ lspci -nn
$ sudo iw wlp4s0 scan
$ nmcli -f GENERAL d show wlp4s0
$ nmcli dev wifi
$ dmesg

Comment 2 Christoph van der Reijden 2015-11-09 13:52:49 UTC
Created attachment 1091754 [details]
Requested info file 1 of 3

Comment 3 Christoph van der Reijden 2015-11-09 13:55:43 UTC
Created attachment 1091755 [details]
Requested info file 2 of 3

Comment 4 Christoph van der Reijden 2015-11-09 13:56:42 UTC
Created attachment 1091756 [details]
Requested info file 3 of 3

Comment 5 Christoph van der Reijden 2015-11-09 14:00:02 UTC
Hi Jirka Klimes!
I uploaded three PDF's with the info you requested. 
Please let me know if you need further info.

Christoph van der Reijden

Comment 6 Christoph van der Reijden 2015-12-21 14:17:30 UTC
The issue continues in Fedora 23 on the same hardware as reported as I found out by booting  Fedora-Live-Workstation_x86_64-23-10 from DVD. The issue is probably related to the driver of the Atheros AR9281 Wireless Networkadapter [168c:002a]  :ath9k.
Is there a way to (temporarily) solve this issue?

Comment 7 Christoph van der Reijden 2016-01-26 15:27:25 UTC
Hello Jirka Klimes,

On the 9th of November I gave you all the info you requested.
Up till now no further steps from your side were taken that were visible to me. I posted the issue also on fedoraforum.org. No response from there till now.

Because of this, unfortunately, I cannot continue with Fedora. 
I removed Fedora from my computer and continued with CentOS-7, well known to you.
If there is a solution to the Wifi-issue, please let me know. Thanks!

Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 18:56:14 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the
current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.