Bug 239201

Summary:	xend and wireless ipw3945d don't work properly on rhel5
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Steven Dake <sdake>
Component:	xen	Assignee:	Michal Novotny <minovotn>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version:	5.0	CC:	areis, berrange, clalance, minovotn, unwosu, xen-maint
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Description Steven Dake 2007-05-05 23:23:23 UTC

Description of problem:
Using RHEL5 Gold, and booting the xen kernel with ipw3945 kmod for xen from the
rhel repo, the wireless doesn't worki.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install the xen kernel
2. install the ipw3945 xen kmod package
3. network manager doesn't properly connect to wireless networks
  
Actual results:
wireless doesn't work via network manager.

Expected results:
wireless should work via network manager.

Additional info:
I found that  by mucking around with the start order of xend, NetworkManager,
NetworkManagerDispatcher, and ipw3945d the system will work as expected.

The start order I used was
xend 97
ipw3945d 98
NetworkManager 99
NetworkManagerDispatch 99

There is a similiar problem to xend relating to cman.  essentially xend breaks
all of the currently existing network connections in the system and this
confuses alot of other software.
This enables wirelss networking.

Comment 1 Steven Dake 2007-05-08 08:21:32 UTC

please note that without the e1000 network cable plugged into a switch or hub,
xen also doesn't work.  Please reference bz 239404 for more information.

Comment 2 Jan Wildeboer 2008-01-11 13:18:43 UTC

bump :-)

Ading a metoo here. On Lenovo X61. RHEL5.1 fully up2date.

Running Xen kernel gives me the card and eth1 but it doesn't seem to get
packets. Will follow up with more details.

Comment 17 Michal Novotny 2010-07-19 06:01:56 UTC

KBase article have been written and approved at:
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-36025

Closing this one as NOTABUG.

Michal