Bug 67114
| Summary: | extra, old drivers for cisco aironet cards | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | cootetim <tim> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-06-07 18:47:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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this got fixed in an erratum |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: there's the kernel.org driver (drivers/net/wireless/airo.c) and there's what the authors seem to think is an old version (drivers/net/pcmcia/airo.c). Both are visible at kernel builds and neither seems to support newer Cisco firmware and so creates extra log entries ("got weird status 1000"). This may be why some of the wireless utilities don't work with these cards (iwconfig core dumps after the query). I think that the worse one is actually newer than the 'better' one - the real one comes from sourceforge. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.look in the kernel source 2.compare the airo.c's 3.both from common platform, but neither current. EV_MIC status bit was added to airo.c in Jan 02 at Sourceforge and added to kernel patch after 2.4.18-4 release in 25/2. Actual Results: two places to find aironet drivers in source tree and in make xconfig Expected Results: one place for aironet drivers, and capable of supporting current firmware Additional info: I'm not convinced that this whole area of the kernel is working properly as I cannot configure the wlan card, but I don't yet have firm enough info to post a bug report. This bug could be a sign of a deeper QA issue?