Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 427456
RT2500 wireless pcmcia card - no link led activity
Last modified: 2008-03-04 14:16:55 EST
Description of problem: Card detects wireless network, makes connection and works "fine" (see bug 382781), but the led does not blink during network search, data transmission, etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.23.12-99.fc8 rt61pci-firmware - 1.2-4.noarch
Power led is on, as it should be
I filed this bug under the firmware, because I am not sure if it depends on this or the kernel.
I can not recreate this with current upstream wireless code. Please try the F8 kernels here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31896 These contain essentially the same rt2x00 driver code as upstream. Can you recreate the problem with those kernels?
I installed 2.6.23.14-111.fc8 I restarted my laptop (using that kernel of course), but the problem persists. The card is a GIGABYTE GN-WMKG Let me know if you need more info.
I have just installed kernel 2.6.23.14-123.fc8 and still no luck.
Just updated from kernel 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 to kernel 2.6.24.3-13.fc8 The link led flashes during scanning (good sign, it never did it in the past) and I presume at this point it would flash during transmission. Unfortunately the device does not manage to detect any wireless networks (even if wireless router is less than 50cm far from it). I will do some checks and update you on this, but as far as the led problem is concerned you seem to be heading in the right direction to solve it.
Since you (correctly) files another bug for the new problem, I'll go ahead and close this one on the basis of comment 6...thanks!