Bug 187640 - Support aliases in /etc/modprobe.d/
Summary: Support aliases in /etc/modprobe.d/
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-network
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
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Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
: 186597 186664 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 87718
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-02 03:54 UTC by Robert Locke
Modified: 2008-05-06 15:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 15:44:30 UTC
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Description Robert Locke 2006-04-02 03:54:46 UTC
Description of problem:
If a network alias is defined in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/filename, it is not
picked up by system-config-network and offered to be configured.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.3.30-2.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create file /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi containing "alias ath0 ath_pci"
2. Try running system-config-network to configure card - not accessible
3. Move alias to /etc/modprobe.conf
4. system-config-network now able to configure wireless adapter

Additional info:
This is the case when the madwifi package is initially installed from livna.org
which "correctly" creates a file /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi to support the modules.
 The modules are loaded by the kernel and the card can be configured by hand,
but not through the system-config-network tool.  Move the lines that were in
/etc/modprobe.d/madwifi into /etc/modprobe.conf and system-config-network now
can configure the card.

Comment 1 Gerry Tool 2006-04-02 14:36:11 UTC
Concur with this bug post.  Following work-around, ath0 works correctly. 
However, NetworkManager seems not to be compatible with it.  That should perhaps
be a separate bug report?

Comment 2 Christopher J. Bottaro 2006-05-02 15:37:50 UTC
I experience this bug as well.

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2006-05-19 09:53:43 UTC
*** Bug 186664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2006-05-19 09:54:20 UTC
*** Bug 186597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Gianluca Sforna 2006-10-28 21:04:24 UTC
Still relevant in FC6.

see http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 02:31:06 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 15:44:29 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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