Bug 417651

Reassigning to kernel-xen since this doesn't seem firmware package dependent,
but specific to the Xen kernel.

I am also seeing the same issue on my thinkpad t60 w/iwl3945 and xen.
Wireless works on 2.6.23.8-63.fc8, but not on 2.6.21-2952.fc8xen

I'm seeing the same problem with my HP Compaq 6510b. Works with
2.6.23.14-115.fc8, fails with 2.6.21-2952.fc8xen

'Me too' here. Neither NetworkManager nor old style can get the device to work.

I want to set the expectation that we're not likely to do any investigative work
to fix this problem. The current Xen kernels are unmaintainable since they are
lagging bare-metal by 3 major releases. We're putting huge effort into
attempting to fix this for Fedora 9

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops

but this unfortunately this means F8 Xen kernels have little-to-no resources. If
someone has reasonable patches that are available to fix the issue we can apply
them to kernel-xen in F8, but any non-trivial development/debug effort is
dead-end work at this point.

Thanks for letting us know Daniel, I can wait for F9, no problem at all.

Cheers

Under 2.6.21.7-3.fc8xen:
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network
Connection driver for Linux, 0.0.25kd
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01
(21-Jan-2007)
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7-M TCO device (Version=2,
TCOBASE=0x1060)
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: e1000: 0000:05:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI
Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 00:16:36:b1:75:3a
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface
driver
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000
Network Connection
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16
(level, low) -> IRQ 16
Mar 27 14:03:26 ferret kernel: iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection
...
Mar 27 14:03:35 ferret avahi-daemon[2036]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 498) and
group 'avahi' (GID 493).
Mar 27 14:03:35 ferret avahi-daemon[2036]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Mar 27 14:03:35 ferret avahi-daemon[2036]: avahi-daemon 0.6.21 starting up.
Mar 27 14:03:35 ferret avahi-daemon[2036]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS
detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Mar 27 14:03:35 ferret avahi-daemon[2036]: Successfully called chroot().
Mar 27 14:03:35 ferret avahi-daemon[2036]: Successfully dropped remaining
capabilities.


Under 2.6.24.3.fc8:

Mar 27 14:18:00 ferret kernel: iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network
Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds
Mar 27 14:18:00 ferret kernel: iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
Mar 27 14:18:00 ferret kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16
(level, low) -> IRQ 16
Mar 27 14:18:00 ferret kernel: iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
Mar 27 14:18:00 ferret kernel: iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13
802.11a channels

Mar 27 14:19:12 ferret kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Mar 27 14:19:13 ferret kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Mar 27 14:19:15 ferret avahi-daemon[2321]: Registering new address record for
fe80::218:deff:fe84:bc4e on wlan0.*.
Mar 27 14:19:16 ferret avahi-daemon[2321]: Joining mDNS multicast group on
interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.7.134.
Mar 27 14:19:16 ferret avahi-daemon[2321]: New relevant interface wlan0.IPv4 for
mDNS.
Mar 27 14:19:16 ferret avahi-daemon[2321]: Registering new address record for
192.168.7.134 on wlan0.IPv4.

Several things:  (a) no "tunable channels" message out of xen kernel and avahi
has mDNS problems, and (b) a lot of devices coming ready simultaneously under
xen, which is not happening under the non-xen kernel.

I have this problem too - HP dv9220us / fedora 8

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