Bug 454504

Summary: Update from kernel 2.6.25-6-55 to 2.6.25-9-76 breaks wireless connectivity
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ed Schofield <edschofield>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Relevant sections from /var/log/messages when booting from each of the -6-55 and -9-76 kernels and establishing a wireless connection with NetworkManager (or not) none

Description Ed Schofield 2008-07-08 21:12:46 UTC
Description of problem:

NetworkManager can no longer connect to my home wireless network after the
latest kernel update in Fedora 9. Booting with the previous 2.6.25-6-55 kernel
allows NetworkManager to establish a connection with my RaLink wireless card,
while booting with the newer 2.6.25-9-76 kernel does not.

How reproducible:

Always.


Additional info:

lspci -v shows my wireless card as:

04:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GN-WP01GS
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at ff7f8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: rt61pci
        Kernel modules: rt61pci

Snips of the relevant sections in /var/log/messages are attached, showing the
difference between booting with the older versus the newer kernel. In short, the
supplicant connection continues changing state with the newer kernel, and the
message

avahi-daemon[1995]: Registering new address record for fe80::216:e6ff:fe3b:10ec
on wlan0.*.

appears instead of

NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 6 -> 7
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
Configure) successful.  Connected to wireless network 'myssid'.

If there are any more diagnostics I can do to help to pinpoint this bug, please ask.

Comment 1 Ed Schofield 2008-07-08 21:12:46 UTC
Created attachment 311315 [details]
Relevant sections from /var/log/messages when booting from each of the -6-55 and -9-76 kernels and establishing a wireless connection with NetworkManager (or not)

Comment 2 Yanko Kaneti 2008-07-08 22:13:41 UTC
dup of bug 453390

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-07-08 23:06:49 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 453390 ***