Bug 156761
| Summary: | kudzu gets confused by an Atheros card | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Florin Andrei <florin> |
| Component: | kudzu | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | FC4 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-09-28 21:26:37 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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Description
Florin Andrei
2005-05-04 01:10:20 UTC
I mean, kudzu should not skip eth1 and assign the 2200 to eth2 just because the Atheros card is plugged in. Atheros is ath0, not eth1! What config files did it write? You mean kudzu? When it got confused? Well... Let me see. I think it added "alias eth2 ipw2200" to modprobe.conf, it created ifcfg-eth2 (which was self-consistent and consistent with modprobe.conf, but it contradicted what the kernel was seeing as far as the Intel Pro/2200 card was concerned) and... i guess that's it? I am not familiar with everything else kudzu is doing behind the scenes. In any case, when i reinstalled the system without plugging in the Atheros (madwifi) card from the very beginning, the modprobe.conf alias and the ifcfg file were created correctly, the Intel Pro/2200 card was mapped to eth1. It looks like, the first time, when the Atheros card was plugged during installation and during the first boot, kudzu thought it should reserve eth1 for the Atheros card and push the Intel Pro/2200 over to eth2, while the kernel was thinking all along that Pro/2200 was eth1. In both cases, in the end kudzu correctly did all the configuration bits (modprobe.conf, ifcfg) for the Atheros card as ath0. It's just that, in the first case, it erroneously moved the Intel Pro/2200 over to eth2. Both the ipw2200 and the madwifi drivers were yum'ed up from the atrpms.net repository. In both cases, the ipw2200 driver was installed first, while the madwifi driver was installed after that, plenty of reboots between all major steps. The laptop is a Dell Latitude D600 The Atheros card is Linksys WPC55AG In both cases, first thing i did right after install was "yum update". Then i proceeded to install drivers, configure stuff, etc. Here is the install document template i derived from this experience: Do not plug in the multiband (A/B/G) wireless card just yet or you may get hit by a Kudzu bug! 1. Install Fedora Core 3 2. Import the Red Hat GPG keys: rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY* 3. Fully update the system export http_proxy="http://www-proxy.XXXXXX.com:YYYY" yum update chkconfig kudzu on reboot Make sure the system comes up running the updated kernel. Configure the new network interface when Kudzu finds it (only on systems with an embedded wireless card, such as the Dell Latitude D600 laptops). 4. Enable custom RPM repositories export http_proxy="http://www-proxy.XXXXXX.com:YYYY" wget http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms rm -f RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/at-stable.repo << "AT-STABLE" [at-stable] name=ATrpms for Fedora Core $releasever stable baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 AT-STABLE wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rm -f RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo << "DAG" [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 DAG 5. Install wireless drivers 5.1. Only on Dell Latitude D600, install the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 driver for the embedded B/G wireless card On systems that do not use the Pro/2200 embedded wireless interface, you can skip this step. yum --enablerepo=at-stable install ipw2200 reboot Make sure that this wireless interface works properly after reboot. 5.2. Install the driver for the Atheros A/B/G wireless card Now plug the multiband wireless card into the laptop. export http_proxy="http://www-proxy.XXXXXX.com:YYYY" yum --enablerepo=at-stable install madwifi reboot Configure the new interface to use DHCP when the system comes up and Kudzu sees it. It may seem to fail to come up after that, but that's because there's no DHCP-enabled access point nearby - therefore, it's no problem. Now edit its configuration file... vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 ...and change BOOTPROTO like this: BOOTPROTO=static Don't change anything else. Reboot one more time; this time, if there's an access point nearby, the card will hook up to it, but will not get an address; this means everything works properly. 6. Install wireless software .... As long as modprobe.conf matches ifcfg-eth2, and ifcfg-eth2 has a HWADDR= line in it, the device name should be more or less irrelevant. Bingo! I am looking at ifcfg-eth1 now, and there's no HWADDR= line I am pretty sure that was the case too when i did the previous install and the interface didn't work - i remember not seeing the HWADDR= line in ifcfg-eth2 (as it was labeled eth2 back then) Neither ifcfg-eth0 has a HWADDR= line now. That's the embedded GigE card, using the tg3 module. But it's always been working fine nevertheless. The ifcfg-ath0 does have a HWADDR= line. This should be better in FC4; it contains some fixes to the network device name detection code. Please open a new bug if it still behaves strangely there. |