Bug 698181

Summary:	wireless usb adapter -> netgear wn111v2: internet connection very slow
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vincenzo <mailvincenzo>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	15	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, sgruszka
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Vincenzo 2011-04-20 11:34:37 UTC

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Description of problem:
With this wireless usb adapter: netgear wn111v2
internet connection is very slow.


Additional info:
With fedora 14 I have no problem (but I have to run "dhclient wlan0" several times to establish the connection)

Comment 1 Stanislaw Gruszka 2011-05-10 12:54:03 UTC

What shows lsusb ?

Comment 2 Vincenzo 2011-05-11 07:22:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> What shows lsusb ?

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9001 NetGear, Inc. WN111(v2) RangeMax Next
Wireless [Atheros AR9001U-(2)NG]
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c001 Logitech, Inc. N48/M-BB48 [FirstMouse Plus]



Other details
I connect in this way:
1. I insert my network password (... and networkManager tries to establish the connection)
2. later I perform immediately this command: "dhclient wlan0"

I also perform this procedure on fedora 14 and I don't have problems.

P.S. I am using this LiveCD: Fedora-15-Nightly-20110504.20-i686-Live-desktop.iso

Comment 3 Vincenzo 2011-09-11 08:58:15 UTC

Wireless Adapter no longer detected (in NetworkManager) after kernel upgrade.
I can try to connect only with the kernel 2.6.38 (but the speed is very low) ... with kernel 2.6.40 I can not connect.

Comment 4 Vincenzo 2011-09-11 09:05:31 UTC

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I forgot to mention that I installed Fedora 15 and with much difficulty (very low speeds and repeated disconnections) are able to upgrade. I was hoping to solve the problem after the update ... but the situation has worsened because the wireless adapter no longer detected (in NetworkManager) after kernel upgrade.

Comment 5 Vincenzo 2011-09-24 07:22:39 UTC

I have the same problem with fedora nightly (Fedora-16-nightly-20110919.08-i686-Live-desktop.iso): Wireless Adapter Not detected.

With ubunut 11.10 beta (kernel 3.0.0-11) I have no connection problems.

Comment 6 Stanislaw Gruszka 2011-09-26 13:07:56 UTC

Perhaps firmware is missing

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#Firmware-1

Comment 7 John W. Linville 2012-05-24 17:30:22 UTC

Seems likely, since we don't package that firmware (yet?)...

Can we see the output from dmesg shortly after inserting the adapter?

Comment 8 Josh Boyer 2012-07-11 17:53:57 UTC

Fedora 15 has reached it's end of life as of June 26, 2012.  As a result, we will not be fixing any remaining bugs found in Fedora 15.

In the event that you have upgraded to a newer release and the bug you reported is still present, please reopen the bug and set the version field to the newest release you have encountered the issue with.  Before doing so, please ensure you are testing the latest kernel update in that release and attach any new and relevant information you may have gathered.

Thank you for taking the time to file a report.  We hope newer versions of Fedora suit your needs.