Bug 429089
| Summary: | udev-118-1.fc8 broken: IPW2200 Adapter firmware no longer detected following upgrade to Fedora 8 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Muyi Taiwo <me> |
| Component: | udev | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | jonstanley, kjb, me |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | F8 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-11-26 17:37:10 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
Muyi Taiwo
2008-01-17 07:15:08 UTC
If you check, the package you have does provide /lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw, so I'd start looking at your udev to see if it's running okay or not. In any case, this is not directly linked to the firmware package, but accessing the firmware file... so there's nothing I can do at the firmware package level, sorry. Please reassign to the right component once you've found the faulty one. udev is working for other devices. Am I missing a script to load the firmware in my version of udev? my udev version is udev-118-1.fc8 I've found the problem: The udev files responsible for loading firmware in Fedora 8 are broken. Apparently, older versions of udev used /sbin/firmware_helper to load firmware files, but the one in Fedora 8 (and possibly a few versions before that) use /lib/udev/firmware.sh The fix for the problem is to replace occurrences of /sbin/firmware_helper in files loading firmware with /lib/udev/firmware.sh. For me, the affected file was /etc/udev/rules.d/06-udev-rh-early.rules. Just to be safe, I also put the complete path to firmware.sh in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules. PS: I've changed the Summary of this bug to reflect the real cause. Same problem here with an Intel 4965 adapter. Btw. this is on x86-64. The "starting udev" on boot seems to hang a long time before normal booting continues, presumably because of the failing firmware upload. Ok, did some extra debugging on this issue (it really bugs me when I can't use wireless). It seems something changed which causes the wireless driver firmware load to timeout. By hacking the /lib/udev/firmware script to write a bigger timout value to /sys/class/firmware/timeout everything is loading perfectly again. This really needs to be fixed in the distribution of course... Reassigning to udev owner, as this won't get looked at if it stays assigned to me ;-) $ fgrep -r firmware /etc/udev/rules.d/ /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:# firmware class requests /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="firmware.sh" $ rpm -q udev udev-118-1.fc8 no /etc/udev/rules.d/06-udev-rh-early.rules file here This message is a reminder that Fedora 8 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 8. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '8'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 8's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 8 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping As this bug is in MODIFIED, Fedora believes that a fix has been committed that resolves the problem listed in this bug report. If this is not the case, please re-open this report, noting the version of the package that you reproduced the bug against. Thanks for the report! |