Description of problem: Using RHEL5 Gold, and booting the xen kernel with ipw3945 kmod for xen from the rhel repo, the wireless doesn't worki. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. install the xen kernel 2. install the ipw3945 xen kmod package 3. network manager doesn't properly connect to wireless networks Actual results: wireless doesn't work via network manager. Expected results: wireless should work via network manager. Additional info: I found that by mucking around with the start order of xend, NetworkManager, NetworkManagerDispatcher, and ipw3945d the system will work as expected. The start order I used was xend 97 ipw3945d 98 NetworkManager 99 NetworkManagerDispatch 99 There is a similiar problem to xend relating to cman. essentially xend breaks all of the currently existing network connections in the system and this confuses alot of other software. This enables wirelss networking.
please note that without the e1000 network cable plugged into a switch or hub, xen also doesn't work. Please reference bz 239404 for more information.
bump :-) Ading a metoo here. On Lenovo X61. RHEL5.1 fully up2date. Running Xen kernel gives me the card and eth1 but it doesn't seem to get packets. Will follow up with more details.
KBase article have been written and approved at: https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-36025 Closing this one as NOTABUG. Michal