Description of problem: After booting from the latest boot.iso and choosing the http install method, the two wired devices eth0/eth1 present on the system are displayed in order to choose the one to be used during install. The also present wireless device wlan0 which is supported by ath5k does not show up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.4.0.75-1 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from boot.iso. 2. Choose http install. Actual results: Only wired devices are displayed. Expected results: The wireless one is shown, too. Additional info: The wireless adapter is a D-Link DWL G510 PCI card based upon the Atheros AR2413 chipset which has been supported by F8 and "rawhide" for almost three months now. Adding "essid=XXXX" and "wepkey=YYYY" on the boot line has no effect either.
Wireless adapters may be shown by adding the 'allowwireless' command line option to anaconda when booting the installer. Let us know if adding this option still requires firmware that isn't present in the initrd. Thanks.
Adding 'allowwireless' to the boot options has no effect. The 'ath5k' driver does not have separate firmware. I would thus guess that the module itself is simply missing.
Yep, this module and several other wireless modules are missing for some reason.
If 'some' reason is related to the rather 'work in progress' character of this driver, I would suggest to include anyway, since wireless install is a quasi-experimental feature which needs to be enabled explicitly. The ath5k driver is perfectly usable for me on a permanent basis. Madwifi is long gone from my system now.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Are the wireless modules still missing, or have they been included?
Browsing through initrd.img of today's boot.iso, ath5.ko turns out to be still missing [2.6.26-0.57.rc5.git3.fc10.x86_64].
ath5k and several other wireless modules are explicitly excluded from the install images because they were broken at some point in the past. This is definitely worth testing again to see what the status of these drivers is.
The F10 alpha netinst image still does not contain the ath5k module. When can we expect it to be included? The driver has left the experimental status for a while now.
I've re-enabled the wireless modules in Rawhide for now. You need to boot with the "allowwireless" parameter to get loader to use them. If the module dependency situation with these modules is still as busted as it was when we first disabled them, they might have to come back out however. Please give a test with Rawhide and let me know if this works for you.
After downloading the latest boot.iso from the "rawhide" tree and adding "allowwireless" to the installer options, anaconda reports that no device has been found. The driver selection list allows to choose support for Atheros 5xxx devices. But after selecting the latter, one is prompted again to choose a driver. The installer output at this point reads: ath5k_pci 0000:01:0a.0: registered as 'phy0' phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' phy0: Failed to initialize wep: -2 ath5k phy0: can't register ieee80211 hw ath5k_pci: 0000:01:0a.0: PCI Int A disabled ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:01:0a.0 failed with error -2 The D-Link DWL-G520 Rev. B4 WLAN device is supported by the ath5k driver [Fedora] since January 2008.
Observations of comment #11 still apply to "rawhide" as of 2008-09-08.
Chris, what modules did you include? Comment 11 looks like ecb and/or arc4 are missing. We probably want aes_generic as well if we are supporting WPA encryption in the installer.
We were already including aes_generic, but I've now added the ecb and arc4 modules. Those will be in rawhide after the next build of anaconda. Anything else I might be missing?
I think that should cover it -- those are the cypto modules that mac80211 can request.
Installing from boot.iso as of 2008-09-12 works as expected.
Support for Atheros AR2413 is again broken in current "rawhide" as of 2009-01-10 sporting anaconda-11.5.0.6-1 [boot options "allowwireless", "essid=..." and "wepkey=..." had been added]. Moreover, not only the Atheros driver is unavailable: even the 2nd wired device eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95721) rev 4101 PHY(5750)] is not available for selection. Accordingly, the menu for device selection is not presented at all. The boot log simply states that only eth0 which is using the forcedeth driver is present. The mainboard is a Tyan Tomcat K8E (S2865-AG2NRF).