Bug 721083 - When using Atmel based Belkin PCMCIA WIFI card the wrong firmware is loaded
Summary: When using Atmel based Belkin PCMCIA WIFI card the wrong firmware is loaded
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: atmel-firmware
Version: 14
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart)
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-13 16:40 UTC by Mark
Modified: 2012-08-16 13:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-08-16 13:55:00 UTC
Type: ---


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Mark 2011-07-13 16:40:22 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading to Fedora 14 I have had trouble getting my wifi card to work, the following from /var/log/messages shows the problem of the wrong firmware being loaded into the wifi card.

Jul 13 16:23:15 localhost kernel: [10124.347214] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
Jul 13 16:23:15 localhost kernel: [10124.347668] pcmcia 1.0: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 (IRQ: 3)
Jul 13 16:23:16 localhost kernel: [10125.031849] eth1: Atmel at76c50x. Version 0.98. MAC 00:30:bd:d2:41:aa
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost NetworkManager[857]: <error> [1310574197.838844] [nm-device-wifi.c:3095] real_update_permanent_hw_address(): (eth1): unable to read permanent MAC address (error 95)
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost NetworkManager[857]: <info> (eth1): driver does not support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00).
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost NetworkManager[857]: <info> (eth1): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'atmel_cs' ifindex: 16)
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost NetworkManager[857]: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/14
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost NetworkManager[857]: <info> (eth1): now managed
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost NetworkManager[857]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost NetworkManager[857]: <info> (eth1): bringing up device.
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost kernel: [10126.434153] eth1: card type is unknown: assuming at76c502 firmware is OK.
Jul 13 16:23:17 localhost kernel: [10126.434173] eth1: if not, use the firmware= module parameter.
Jul 13 16:23:18 localhost kernel: [10126.592817] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready

Also udevadm shows the same.

UDEV  [1310571534.895213] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.1/1.0/firmware/1.0 (firmware)
UDEV_LOG=3
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.1/1.0/firmware/1.0
SUBSYSTEM=firmware
FIRMWARE=atmel_at76c502.bin
ASYNC=0
SEQNUM=1547

I search the web and tried various entries in "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" with no luck.

The prefered method appears to be adding an entry into "/etc/modprobe.d", so I created a file atmel.conf and tried the following configurations, neither of which caused the correct firmware to be loaded.

options atmel firmware=atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin

and

options atmel_cs firmware=atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin

My current solution is;

mv /lib/firmware/atmel_at76c502.bin /lib/firmware/atmel_at76c502.bin.old
ln -s /lib/firmware/atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin /lib/firmware/atmel_at76c502.bin

Which works but will be wiped if the firmware package is upgraded

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Vanilla Fedora 14
2.Insert PCMCIA Card
3.
  
Actual results:
Firmware atmel_at76c502.bin is loaded into wifi card

Expected results:
atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin loaded into card

Additional info:

Comment 1 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2011-08-19 17:32:42 UTC
Does the wifi card worked previously with an older version of fedora ?

Comment 2 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2011-08-19 17:39:27 UTC
Can you give the output of "lspcmcia info" with the card inserted ?
Does the problem is still reproduced with current kernel?

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2012-08-16 13:55:03 UTC
This message is a notice that Fedora 14 is now at end of life. Fedora 
has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 14. It is 
Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no 
longer maintained.  At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version'
of '14' have been closed as WONTFIX.

(Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this 
occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.)

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen 
this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that 
we were unable to fix it before Fedora 14 reached end of life. If you 
would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it 
against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on 
"Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that 
version of Fedora.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events.  Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

The process we are following is described here: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.