Bug 79869
| Summary: | neat doesn't allow configuration of Transmit Rate and Channel for cisco aironet 350 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dennis Edmonds <dedmonds> |
| Component: | redhat-config-network | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | parsley, wtogami |
| 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: | 2003-02-05 13:07:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 81720 | ||
huh? Channel and Rate are configureable in the GUI! I can change the channel and rate on all of the other cards at the office, but not on this particular Cisco Aironet card. I can send you screenshots of the greyed out channel and rate fields in the gui if that will help? Dennis is it only greyed out in the channel or in the normal "Edit"-dialog, too? It is greyed out when I run neat, highlight the wireless card, click on edit, and go to the Wireless Settings tab. Is there somewhere else in neat that I can view the channel and rate setting? I've always looked at it here... |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: When using neat or redhat-config-network to install and configure a Cisco Aironet 350, the gui does not allow the Transmit Rate or the Channel variables to be set. The default seems to CHANNEL=1 and RATE=11Mb/s, which will not work on our specific wireless network. (Maybe it works for some people, just nowhere I have tried the card.) After editing /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 and changing the CHANNEL setting to 6 and the RATE setting to Auto....everything works fine. Although you can actually get by with leaving the channel set to 1, the rate absolutely has to be set for Auto. I resolved this issue after after installing the Cisco provided driver for the card and taking note of the defaults they use for the Rate setting. I don't know why the neat GUI will not allow you to change the Channel and Rate, but if the default Rate was set to auto this would at the very least allow the card to work "out of the box." I hope this is clear enough, if you need further information please let me know. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA adapter into laptop 2. Start up redhat-config-network. 3. Add a wirekess adapter. 4. Look at the crazy default rate setting for the card. 5. Agonize over not being able to change it in the GUI :) Actual Results: The card didn't work. Expected Results: The card should work. Additional info: correct defaults for /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth#: USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY= TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:0a:8a:fa:98:fb BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= ONBOOT=no DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= NAME= DOMAIN= ESSID=(kind of private) CHANNEL=1 MODE=Managed KEY=(kind of private) RATE=Auto