Bug 147065
| Summary: | Installer detects wrong WLAN PCI card | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Timo Sivula <timo.sivula> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | CC: | pfrields, redhat |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-05-04 13:16:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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prism54 claims the pci id for the driver. It should probably refuse to claim the card if it doesn't support it. Note that you can always add: install prism54 /bin/true to /etc/modprobe.conf. An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you. I am still on Fedora Core 1 because of this bug. How do I test that the new kernel solves this? If I update or do a clean install from the FC3 DVD I will end in the same situation. Should I change the kernel on the FC3 DVD to the new one or how do I test the installer with the new kernel? br, Timo If the FC4 DVD doesn't have this defect, the update kernel for FC3 won't either, as the two kernels are now very close. I also have v2 of SMC2802W; installed fc4 recently and it was still automatically loading prism54 so the issue is not fixed yet. I do not have sufficient bugzilla privs to change the version field to 'fc4' - please can someone else update it. As with other people, I successfully got the card working by doing 'rmmod prism54' and switching to the ndiswrapper driver (although I am seeing regular freezes once ndiswrapper is loaded - I have read that this is likely to be fixed by using a kernel with >4k stacks). This is a mass-update to all currently open Fedora Core 3 kernel bugs. Fedora Core 3 support has transitioned to the Fedora Legacy project. Due to the limited resources of this project, typically only updates for new security issues are released. As this bug isn't security related, it has been migrated to a Fedora Core 4 bug. Please upgrade to this newer release, and test if this bug is still present there. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. Thank you. This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you. Closing per previous comment. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The SMC 2802W WLAN PCI card comes in two versions, Version 1 and Version 2. Version 1 of the card is supported by the Prism54 driver included with the 2.6 kernel in FC3. Version 2 of the card is NOT supported by Prism54, and requires the user to use Ndiswrapper and Windows drivers. There is no way for the consumer to know which model of the card he buys because they are sold in similar salespackages. Most of the currently sold cards are Version 2. During the install proces, anaconda can not separate between the Version 1 card and the Version 2 card and configures the system to use the Prism54 driver regardless of which card is installed. lsmod lists Prism54 being installed despite Version 2 of the card being in use. This happens in both upgrade from a previous version of Fedora Core and when doing a clean install. The Prism54 module hangs the Version 2 of SMC2802W card. Further, installing Ndiswrapper in FC3 to use SMC2802W is not possible, due to the configured Prism54 driver blocking access to the V2 card. The SMC2802 V2 works flawlessly in Fedora Core 1 with Ndiswrapper 0.7. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Anaconda in FC3 release How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert the FC3 install CDROM and run the installation program 2. Reboot the PC 3. issue "lsmod" 4. Try to configure wireless networking with the network configuration wizard Actual Results: The network fails to start. Expected Results: Network should come up. Additional info: My post to fedoraforum.org that got no replies: I am running a very stable Fedora Core 1 system using a well working SMC2802W V2 card with Ndiswrapper 0.7. I have tried to upgrade to FC3 both as an upgrade and as a fresh install on a separate HDD but the card fails to work. This is what I did: 1. I downloaded the Linuxant 2.6 kernel for FC3 with larger stack 2. Installed FC3 on a new HDD 3. Installed and booted the linuxant kernel 4. Compiled and installed Ndiswrapper 0.7 5. Configured networking 6. Rebooted Of some reason the installation believes I have a SMC2802 V1 card and loads the Prism54 module, which does not work with my card. I can see the Prism54 module with lsmod. Also Ndiswrapper is loaded but it does not work. 7. I added prism54 to /etc/hotplug/blacklist 8. Reboot Now lsmod no longer shows prism54, but dmesg shows a couple of loadings and unloadings of Prism54 during the boot process. Ndiswrapper is loaded but does not work. 9. I can get it to work with /sbin/rmmod prism54 /sbin/rmmod ndiswrapper /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper I have to do this every boot to make the LAN work, which is not nice. I could of course add this to rc.local but there should be a neater solution to this. How do I make Fedora recognise my hardware correctly to prevent prism54 from loading at all, so that I can have Ndiswrapper running with the card at startup automaticly?