Bug 865769

Summary:	Add firmware for Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200/2230 (iwl2030-firmware,iwl2000-firmware) to Hardware Support group
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomas Vanderka <tomas.vanderka>
Component:	comps	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	18	CC:	agospoda, jwboyer, linville, rvokal
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Description Tomas Vanderka 2012-10-12 12:00:06 UTC

Description of problem:
hardware-support group is missing firmware for recent Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200/2230 adapters, Live CD does not recognize wifi on newer laptops, in my case Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E530
Would be nice if iwl2000-firmware, iwl2030-firmware packages were included in Hardware Support group so they get picked up by livecd kickstart scripts.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 18

How reproducible:
allways

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot livecd
2. try to use wifi
3.
  
Actual results:
no wifi adapter

Expected results:
wifi usable

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-10-12 14:07:24 UTC

We could add this, but my understanding is that it is just moving into the main linux-firmware package.

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2012-10-12 14:24:57 UTC

That's true.  But FWIW, they are still building independent binary RPMs from the linux-firwmare SRPM for the iwl*-firmware packages.  Maybe the comps still need separate entries for the binary RPMs?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2012-10-12 14:31:14 UTC

According to something gospo said, the plan was to merge them into the main binary RPM as well. Perhaps I missed something.

Comment 4 Andy Gospodarek 2012-10-12 14:35:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> According to something gospo said, the plan was to merge them into the main
> binary RPM as well. Perhaps I missed something.

That was the plan for RHEL7.  Josh seemed to indicate that there was a desire by some to keep the Intel wireless firmware separate in Fedora.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2012-10-12 14:48:02 UTC

Adding Josh for comments, then.

Comment 6 Josh Boyer 2012-10-13 11:55:33 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > According to something gospo said, the plan was to merge them into the main
> > binary RPM as well. Perhaps I missed something.
> 
> That was the plan for RHEL7.  Josh seemed to indicate that there was a
> desire by some to keep the Intel wireless firmware separate in Fedora.

Right.  I originally just had them in the linux-firmware package, but there were complaints that people would no longer be able to remove the iwl*-firmware if they don't have those devices on their machines.  Not being able to remove them was viewed as a regression of sorts.

I don't see that changing again for F18 at least.  RHEL will do it's own thing.

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2012-10-15 18:11:46 UTC

You can guess my opinions on shipping 15 extra binary packages just for the sake of 10MB of disk space for paranoid people.

But ok, comps edited.