Bug 1447886

Summary:	[anaconda] firmware missing for 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 DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	26	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, bcl, g.kaviyarasu, jfrieben, jonathan, mkolman, robatino, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vponcova
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2017-05-26 22:03:02 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1349186, 1349187

Description Joachim Frieben 2017-05-04 07:33:12 UTC

Description of problem:
Recent Fedora 26 netinst images Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-26-* are lacking numerous firmware files for Intel wireless network devices including Intel (R) Ultimate N Wifi Link 5300 AGN. As a consequence, wireless network is not supported by the installer in this case and cannot be used for installing the system.
On an installed system, this firmware is provided by package iwl5000-firmware.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-26.21.4-1.fc26

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-26-* image on Lenovo ThinkPad T400.
2. Choose network device.

Actual results:
Only the wired network device is listed.

Expected results:
The wireless network device is listed, too.

Additional info:
1. Wireless network device Intel (R) Ultimate N Wifi Link 5300 AGN used to be supported prior to Fedora 25.
2. The missing firmware files are present both on the installed system and in live images Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-*.

Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2017-05-15 16:15:32 UTC

The missing firmware files are present again in netinst image Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-26-20170513.n.0.

Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2017-05-25 08:15:03 UTC

Recent netinst images show an erratic inclusion of Intel wifi firmware files: on 2017-05-19 they were missing completely, on 2017-05-23 the firmware for the 5000 series was absent while some others were present.

Comment 3 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2017-05-25 21:25:40 UTC

Proposed as a Blocker and Freeze Exception for 26-beta by Fedora user frieben using the blocker tracking app because:

 The absence of the firmware provided by package iwl5000-firmware renders using a wireless device Intel (R) Ultimate N Wifi Link 5300 AGN for performing a network install impossible. This deficiency violates the beta criterion "Remote package sources" which requires "When using the dedicated installer images, the installer must be able to use HTTP, FTP and NFS repositories as package sources."

Comment 4 Samantha N. Bueno 2017-05-26 12:57:10 UTC

I'm clearing the Fixed In Version field because it implies we made specific changes in anaconda to fix this. We did not. Please allow package maintainers to manipulate the Fixed In Version field as appropriate when changes that address specific bugs land in new builds.

As for the issue at hand, I'm not sure why the driver is present in some composes and missing in others, but let's start with lorax to investigate, since this isn't anaconda-specific.

Comment 5 Brian Lane 2017-05-26 22:03:02 UTC


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