Bug 697754

Summary: fail to activate wlan0
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: chen yuwen <yuchen>
Component: wireless-toolsAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.7CC: czhang, gbai
Target Milestone: alpha   
Target Release: 5.7   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description chen yuwen 2011-04-19 06:23:36 UTC
Description of problem:
wlan0 can not be activated on RHEL5.7.

# ifup wlan0

Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL5.7-20110413.1
ThankPad T400

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install RHEL5.7 on system with wireless NIC.
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Actual results:
wlan0 activation fail

Expected results:
wlan0 is active

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