Bug 454707 - iwl4965 doesn't works unde rhel5.2 x86_64
Summary: iwl4965 doesn't works unde rhel5.2 x86_64
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: iwl4965-firmware
Version: 5.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: John W. Linville
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-09 20:20 UTC by Carlos Lopez
Modified: 2008-07-14 17:22 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: iwl4965-firmware-4.44.1.18-2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-07-10 13:26:15 UTC
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2008-07-11 14:54 UTC, Carlos Lopez 		no flags Details
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Description Carlos Lopez 2008-07-09 20:20:11 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061517 Red Hat/3.0-2.el5 Firefox/3.0

Description of problem:
When i try to load iwl4965 driver using modprobe doesn't works. I have verified that it isn't blacklisted under /etc/modprobe.d like in rhel5.0.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iwl4965-firmware-4.44.17-1.noarch and kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.modprobe iwl4965
2.insert "alias wlan0 iwl4965" in modprobe.conf
3.

Actual Results:
Doesn't works and returns this error:

iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.22ks
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
iwl4965: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwl4965: Could not read microcode: -2
iwl4965: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -2

Expected Results:
working wifi

Additional info:
Comment 1 Carlos Lopez 2008-07-09 20:30:05 UTC 
As a Sam Sharpe says on rhel5-list:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2008-July/msg00119.html, bug is
solved doing a soflink like this:

ln -s /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode


 Can this be fixed in a next release of iwl4965-firmware package??

 Thanks.
Comment 2 John W. Linville 2008-07-10 13:26:15 UTC 
There alread is a next release of the firmware package.  Please update it from 
the Supplementary CD.
Comment 3 Carlos Lopez 2008-07-10 20:26:10 UTC 
Sorry John, but under supplementary channel anly appears same buggy package ...
Comment 5 John W. Linville 2008-07-11 12:49:40 UTC 
Others seems to have been able to get it.  What are you doing to attempt the update?
Comment 6 Carlos Lopez 2008-07-11 14:25:23 UTC 
I have tried now and I only see previous version ...
Comment 7 John W. Linville 2008-07-11 14:41:45 UTC 
Could you be more specific about _what_ you are trying?
Comment 8 Carlos Lopez 2008-07-11 14:54:50 UTC 
Created attachment 311590 [details]
Screenshoot
Comment 9 Carlos Lopez 2008-07-11 14:56:14 UTC 
Yes, as you can see in this attachment, supplementary channel for rhel5 server
x86_64 only shows previous version: iwl4965-firmware-4.44.17-1.noarch
Comment 10 John W. Linville 2008-07-14 15:06:03 UTC 
I am told that RHN has resolved the issue regarding availability of that 
package in the proper channel.  Please try the update process again!
Comment 11 Carlos Lopez 2008-07-14 17:22:19 UTC 
Many thanks John. I have already downloaded new iwl-firmware package.
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