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Bug 697754

Summary:	fail to activate wlan0
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	chen yuwen <yuchen>
Component:	wireless-tools	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.7	CC:	czhang, gbai
Target Milestone:	alpha
Target Release:	5.7
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description chen yuwen 2011-04-19 06:23:36 UTC

Description of problem:
wlan0 can not be activated on RHEL5.7.

# ifup wlan0

Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL5.7-20110413.1
ThankPad T400

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install RHEL5.7 on system with wireless NIC.
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Actual results:
wlan0 activation fail

Expected results:
wlan0 is active

Additional info: