Bug 610006

Summary: iwlagn not working in fips mode
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jiri Kastner <jkastner>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 6.0CC: arozansk, linville, sgruszka
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Description Jiri Kastner 2010-07-01 12:20:35 UTC
when kernel is running in fips mode, iwlagn fails

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64
wireless-tools-29-5.1.1.el6.x86_64
wpa_supplicant-0.6.8-10.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always in fips mode

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable fips mode
2. reboot
3. 'rmmod iwl{agn,core}
4. 'modprobe iwlagn'
5. run dmesg or tail /var/log/messages

Actual results:
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27k
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN REV=0x54
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
phy1: Failed to initialize wep: -2
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Failed to register hw (error -2)
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -2


Expected results:
no error in dmesg, wlan0 visible using iwconfig, ifconfig and NetworkManager

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-07-01 12:43:11 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 4 John W. Linville 2010-07-02 13:30:50 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608704 ***