Bug 469835 - NM doesn't identify wireless devices on the XO
Summary: NM doesn't identify wireless devices on the XO
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: FedoraOnXO
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-04 10:53 UTC by Alexander Todorov
Modified: 2008-11-04 18:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-11-04 18:23:47 UTC
Type: ---
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NM on the XO (74.77 KB, image/png)
2008-11-04 10:53 UTC, Alexander Todorov
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Description Alexander Todorov 2008-11-04 10:53:56 UTC
Created attachment 322407 [details]
NM on the XO

Description of problem:
In NM both mesh and standard wireless devices are showing as "Marvell MARVELL Wireless Device". This leads to confusion when you need to select which device to use (i.e. when connecting to a hidden network)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.11.svn4201.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the NM applet icon while running on the XO laptop
  
Actual results:
See screenshot

Expected results:
Both wireless devices (mesh and regular) are identified in a distinguishable manner.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2008-11-04 18:23:47 UTC
This is because they actually _are_ indistinguishable.  The OLPC wireless stuff is "special" and the interfaces do not conform to the standard method of specifying wifi interfaces in Linux.  Thus, it's not supported at this time.

The OLPC guys are working on proper support.


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