| Summary: | RHEL-6.1 iwlagn driver needs iwl5000 firmware update | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Phil Perry <phil> | ||||||
| Component: | iwl5000-firmware | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> | ||||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | ajb, amyagi, degts, mishu, myllynen, sgruszka, smooge, woodard | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-05-24 13:54:39 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Description
Phil Perry
2011-05-20 20:24:40 UTC
A quick note from me. Having experienced the exact same issue as reported here by NedSlider, a simple d/l of the above Intel tarball, extraction of the iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode file and dropping it into the /lib/firmware/ directory resolves the issue. Thanks to NedSlider for posting the fix. A black mark to the RHEL 6 QA team for letting this first update out of the door without noticing the phoo-bah! ;) (Please note the emoticon, above.) Your device should function with the older firmware. The firmware package should be updated in the 6.2 cycle. If the messages in the log annoy you, then you can update the firmware manually as described above. Otherwise, just ignore them in the meantime. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 680456 *** I deliberately add support to new firmware, but do not install it by default. New firmware claim to fix some 11n bugs, but after all these seems to be a driver bugs, also there is some other regression reported with new firmware. So, we allow to use new microcode, but default is older one, which was widely tested by RH developers and QA, and should work quite well. (In reply to comment #3) > Your device should function with the older firmware. The firmware package > should be updated in the 6.2 cycle. If the messages in the log annoy you, then > you can update the firmware manually as described above. Otherwise, just > ignore them in the meantime. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 680456 *** Sorry John, you may say "should function" but I can definitely say it _does_not_function_ ! This is not about annoying messages in a log, this is about non-functional h/w when the OS is updated to 6.1 Synopsis: With 6.0, wireless connectivity works, apply OS update to 6.1, wireless connectivity is broken. Using the upstream f/w restores the broken functionality. Therefore this issue should be fixed now, as a bug in 6.1 and not with the release of 6.2 The word regression applies here. Could you attach full dmesg output? Created attachment 500641 [details]
Dmesg in messages
Stock Lenovo Thinkpad T500. Hardware began to show problems after upgrade. Got 669 reloads in about 24 hours and a sustained 10% packet loss between router and wireless card (10 feet away). Miniscule packet loss with RHEL-6.0
Created attachment 500648 [details]
Requested dmesg file.
For completeness, this is the device --
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 [8086:4235]
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