Created attachment 342869 [details] Smolt Profile Description of problem: I booted the Laptop using the Fedora 11 SNAP1 Live-CD Wireless did not work. It works out of the box in Fedora 10 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 11 SNAP1 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot Laptop from Fedora 11 SNAP1 Live-CD 2.Login as default live CD user 3. Actual results: No Wireless connection enabled Expected results: Wireless Connections offered Additional info:
Created attachment 342871 [details] output from dmesg
Created attachment 342872 [details] output from lspci
kernel version is 2.6.29.1-54.fc11.i586
Please attach the output of 'ifconfig' and 'iwconfig' as well as 'iwlist wlan0 scan'...thanks!
Created attachment 342949 [details] output from ifconfig
Created attachment 342950 [details] output from iwconfig
Created attachment 342951 [details] output from iwlist
Hmmm...ok so the netdev is registered, the device is up, but no scan results. Luis, the F11 kernel should be darn close to 2.6.29.1 -- any idea what might be causing this?
Note this problem exits on Fedora 11 RC2 LiveCD of May 29th.
What driver was F10 using - still ath5k or madwifi? What channel is your AP on? Are there any other networks around? I can't think of any bugs in the 2.6.29 timeframe (there were some in 2.6.30, now fixed) that would be regressions. I can take a look at the f11 kernel source though and diff it with mainline to see.
(In reply to comment #10) > What driver was F10 using - still ath5k or madwifi? > > What channel is your AP on? Are there any other networks around? > > I can't think of any bugs in the 2.6.29 timeframe (there were some in 2.6.30, > now fixed) that would be regressions. I can take a look at the f11 kernel > source though and diff it with mainline to see. Looking at F10 we have:- messages:Jun 1 16:41:35 localhost kernel: ath5k_pci 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) messages:Jun 1 16:41:35 localhost kernel: ath5k_pci 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 messages:Jun 1 16:41:35 localhost kernel: ath5k_pci 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0' messages:Jun 1 16:41:35 localhost kernel: ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45) messages:Jun 1 16:41:44 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath5k_pci') [root@c3p0 log]# uname -a Linux c3p0 2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed May 20 23:10:16 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux At the moment I am on channel 9 and I can see other networks with F10. With Fedora11 I saw nothing with this machine.
Bob, FWIW madwifi has never been part of Fedora. Fedora has used ath5k ever since it was in the kernel.
Excellent. Channel 9 is still in 2 ghz band so it's not the recent 5 ghz regressions, and it's unlikely to be excluded due to any regulatory reason. I snagged a copy of 2.6.29-1-102.fc11 src rpm and 2.6.27.24 to diff, hmm, only 15000 lines of diff to examine, not too bad :) Mainline saw about 60 patches to ath5k between 2.6.27 and 2.6.29, nothing that stands out but a few are rather large, and of course some infrastructure changes in there like the RC rewrite. I'll keep looking.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I just looked at this problem in Fedora 11 Linux c3p0 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux and it still exists. I then did a search of all the Fedora 11 Wireless, atheros and wpa bug reports and found 494953. I tried the modprobe -r acer-wmi and wireless worked! from the logfile ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready acer-wmi: Acer Laptop WMI Extras unloaded ACPI: WMI: Mapper unloaded wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
Not really sure who should look at this -- above comment sounds like ath5k isn't really at fault... You might want to attach your DSDT for future reference: cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt
Created attachment 357928 [details] dsdt file as requested
I can't help but think that acer--wmi (see comment #15 above) is making assumptions about the wireless hardware. The acer 132LC laptop in question had no wireless built in and uses a Linksys wireless Card add-on (hopefully the smolt profile shows this)
Bug still present in Fedora 12 2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 The workaround still remains modprobe -r acer_wmi
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Change version to 12
Finally retested on Fedora 12 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686 no longer any need to modprobe -r acer_wmi relevant section from dmesg fuse init (API version 7.13) SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), uses genfs_contexts wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff by local choice (reason=3) wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff (try 1) wlan0: direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff (try 1) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff (try 1) wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:08:5c:ca:de:ff (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready padlock: VIA PadLock not detected. wlan0: no IPv6 routers present Closing this ticket as fixed somewhere in the system!