Bug 428580

Summary:	zd1211rw driver is omitted
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David A. De Graaf <dad>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8	CC:	cebbert, davej, mordacai058
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Description David A. De Graaf 2008-01-13 19:33:13 UTC

Description of problem:
The zd1211rw driver is needed to support my new Belkin Wireless USB adapter.
It's been there, working; now it's gone.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8

How reproducible:
It's not there!


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Plug in USB adapter; note that the kernel sees a new USB device.
2.  Run ifup wlan0
3.  Error message:  Device wlan0 does not seem to be present.
  
Actual results:
Delaying initialization.

Expected results:
Activation and connection.

Additional info:

What's going on with the zd1211rw driver?
In Fedora 8 it is omitted entirely from the latest kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
The immediately prior kernel provides
./2.6.23.8-63.fc8/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw-mac80211/zd1211rw-
mac80211.ko
which works fine on an i386 system.

On Fedora 7, x86_64, the penultimate kernel, 2.6.23.8-34.fc7, provides
zd1211rw-mac80211.ko, while the ultimate kernel, 2.6.23.12-52.fc7,
has switched to zd1211rw.ko.  Unfortunately neither seems to work on my
x86_64 system.

I recently purchased a Belkin Wireless G USB network adapter, part No.
F5D7050, and was pleased to find it was supported by the zd1211rw
driver.  However, there seems to be some churning with this software
and I am dismayed to see that only some combinations of kernel and
driver seem usable.

I hope the omission from kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 was merely inadvertent.
Can it be restored?

Comment 1 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2008-01-13 20:09:04 UTC

you are true!
Thx for reporting this.. Actually you have reported it to the wrong component
(firmware instead of the kernel).

But later kernels have it re-enabled. So i suggest to use koji to get a newer
kernel (there is no newer kernel in updates-testing for now) or take an older one..

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2008-01-15 15:06:09 UTC

Upstream the zd1211rw transformed into what had been the zd1211rw-mac80211.  
Unfortunately I flubbed the configuration when moving this change into the F8 
kernels starting at -80.fc8.

As kwizart suggests, this was resolved starting with the -86.fc8 kernel.  As 
soon as any newer version becomes available in updates we should see this 
issue no more...

In the meantime, I suggest using a kernel from Koji:

   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31090

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2008-01-23 00:43:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 428660 ***

Comment 4 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2008-02-02 10:21:01 UTC

*** Bug 429392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***