Bug 136188
| Summary: | Intersil Prism Wavelan incorrectly detected as wired instead of wireless | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | nkadel, spamtrap_01 |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-08-25 13:24:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
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I have installed Fedora Core 3 on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 laptop with built in wifi. FC1 would recognise my wirless card and work but FC2 didn't work and nor does FC3. My Intel Ethernet card gets recognised and assigned to eth0. eth1 gets assigned 'Intersil Prism2 11Mbs Wireless' Adapter but as an ethernet (wired) card with no options to change SSID and encryption stuff etc. I have tried various combinations of deleting the 2 cards, reassigning individually to eth0 or eth1 and trying to set up a wireless connection using the standard PCMCIA wavelan_cs listed in the 'other wireless cards' section. Whatever I do I get a card not present error and on rebooting the cards are reassigned eth0 and eth1 (wired) as per the original install. Please let me know if I need to report specific information or include any logs or other files. Thank you. Matt *** Bug 138344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Workaround, add: Type=Wireless in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface> I think I had tried that in the past without success Harald (but I'm not 100% sure). Anyway, for me the fix was to disable acpi in the grub command line. pci=noacpi as documented here: http://www.deepblue.uk.net/fortopic107.html Thanks, Matt I've also had this problem, and I independently discovered the workaround Harald gives in comment #3. Matt, ACPI works fine for me, so there's no reason to turn it off. Oh, I should mention that I have a "Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card WPC11 v3" but it's the same chip, same symptoms. anaconda should add Type=Wireless for wireless cards Changed anaconda to not set TYPE= except in special cases since this can be probed in general |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Description of problem: The Intersil Prism 2.5 Wavelan card (802.11b Wi-Fi) is incorrectly detected as a wired Ethernet card. No options are given in system-config-network to change SSID, channel, WEP, etc. Note that the card works properly when connecting to a fully-open WAP which broadcasts the SSID, so there is no problem in the actual functionality of the card. It is simply that one cannot configure some of its options in system-config-network because the "wireless" page is not shown at all. Deleting the card (deleting the adapter from system-config-network, deleting the eth1 line from /etc/modprobe.conf, and deleting the stanza from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf) then rerunning "kudzu" to have it redetected results in the card being listed correctly in system-config-network as a wireless card and showing the wireless options page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.21-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC2-T3. 2. Run system-config-network. 3. Card is seen as wired Ethernet. Actual Results: Card is detected as "eth1" and the options provided are those for a wired Ethernet card. Expected Results: Card should have been detected as a wireless adapter and the wireless options page shown. Additional info: Output of lspci: 02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) Hardware: This card is inside an IBM Thinkpad T23 (2647-5NU) which also has a wired Ethernet card as eth0.