Bug 484840

Summary:	GateWay ML6270 - RTL8187B fails when creating Ad-hoc network on Fedora 10
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	overmydeadlaube
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	arxs, dcbw
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Description overmydeadlaube 2009-02-10 08:48:35 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020410 Fedora/3.0.6-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.6

2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686
Gateway ML6270 has an onboard Realtek RTL8187B chipset, it fails
to create an Ad-hoc network in any type of security mode. NetworkManager begins to create Ad-hoc network but fails and goes back to join local wireless network

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Left click on NetWork Manager
2. Create new wireless network
3. Choose any security setting.

1. sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
2. sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid any mode Ad-Hoc
3. sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported

Actual Results:  
Failure to create Ad-Hoc wireless network

Expected Results:  
Successful creation of ad-hoc wireless network

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2009-02-10 20:00:16 UTC

Can you try the updated 2.6.27.12 kernel?  Success of this operation is highly driver dependent.

As root:

yum upgrade kernel*

Comment 2 Niels Haase 2009-04-10 20:04:26 UTC

Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

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Comment 3 Dan Williams 2009-11-11 01:01:47 UTC

Please re-open if this isn't fixed by the latest F10 kernel.  It's also likely that Fedora 11 fixes your bug, so you may wish to try that as well.  Thanks!