Bug 1430649

Summary:	[lorax] missing wireless network device Intel (R) Ultimate N Wifi Link 5300 AGN
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component:	lorax	Assignee:	Brian Lane <bcl>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, bcl, dwmw2, g.kaviyarasu, jforbes, jfrieben, jonathan, kernel-maint, mkolman, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vponcova
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Description Joachim Frieben 2017-03-09 08:38:33 UTC

Description of problem:
After booting a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 from the official Fedora 25 netinst boot image, the network section only shows the wired device but not the (physically) also present Intel (R) Ultimate N Wifi Link 5300 AGN wireless device. The 'dmesg' utility reports a failure in loading the corresponding firmware which is claimed to be missing. As a consequence, a network install is not possible using a wireless network.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-25.20.8-1.fc25

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot Lenovo Thinkpad T400 from the official Fedora 25 netinst boot image.
2. Try to connect to a wireless network.

Actual results:
No wireless device is listed by the installer.

Expected results:
The Intel 5300 AGN wireless controller is listed and functional.

Additional info:
When booting from the corresponding official live meda, wifi is working both for the live session and the installed system.

Comment 1 Martin Kolman 2017-03-09 11:08:26 UTC

I guess something could be wrong with the firmware loading - so reassigning.

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2017-03-09 13:31:11 UTC

Does this device work now?  Having the dmesg attached would have been helpful.

Comment 3 Joachim Frieben 2017-03-11 20:54:24 UTC

Related entries in the output of 'demsg' read:

[..] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[..] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode failed with error -2
[..] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode failed with error -2
[..] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode failed with error -2
[..] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode failed with error -2
[..] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode failed with error -2

Indeed, the firmware files for Intel wireless devices in /lib/firmware only include

iwlwifi-100-5.ucode
iwlwifi-105-6.ucode
iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-10.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-13.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-16.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-17.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-7.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-8.ucode
iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode
iwlwifi-3168-21.ucode
iwlwifi-3168-22.ucode
iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode

whereas Fedora 25 live systems and installed systems also include the range

iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
..
iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
..
iwlwifi-8265-22.ucode.

Comment 4 Joachim Frieben 2017-03-11 21:16:38 UTC

An alleged general absence of wifi support in the Fedora 25 netinst boot image has been reported previously in bug 1397582.

Comment 5 Brian Lane 2017-05-30 15:29:16 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1440417 ***

Comment 6 Joachim Frieben 2017-05-30 18:30:31 UTC

This bug report was filed for Fedora 25 for which the issue is still unresolved.