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Description of problem: Yesterday (2012-02-05), there was an update to the crda package, from version 1.1.2 to 1.1.3_2013.01.11-1.fc17 on my Fedora 17 box. After the update and a reboot, the wireless stopped working. More specifically, no wireless networks were visible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): crda 1.1.3_2013.01.11-1.fc17 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Update crda from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 2. 3. Actual results: Wireless not working. Expected results: Wireless working. Additional info: Even though iwconfig did list wlan0, I was not able to do a iwlist wlan0 scanning, it exited out with a "Interface doesn't support scanning." message. I finally did a yum history undo <ID> to revert the update to the 1.1.2 package. Sorry for the scarce information at the moment, but I will provide as much as information about the system before and after the update, as long as someone tells me what information should I provide.
This sounds rather strange -- more like a kernel problem than a crda issue. Please post the output of running dmesg after a reboot, with both versions of the crda package. Also include the output of running ifconfig and iwconfig in both cases. Do you have any special configuration being applied to your wireless device? If so, what would that be? Please tell me about the configuration for the AP you normally use -- what channel is it on? What type of security does it use? Also, what country are you in?
Created attachment 694061 [details] dmesg with crda 112
Created attachment 694063 [details] dmesg with crda 113
Created attachment 694064 [details] ifconfig crda 112
Created attachment 694065 [details] ifconfig crda 113
Created attachment 694066 [details] iwconfig crda 112b
Created attachment 694067 [details] iwconfig crda 113
Created attachment 694068 [details] iwlist scanning crda 112
Created attachment 694069 [details] iwlist scanning crda 113
Created attachment 694070 [details] lsmod crda 112
Created attachment 694071 [details] lsmod crda 113
Created attachment 694072 [details] lspci crda 112
Created attachment 694073 [details] lspci crda 113
Created attachment 694074 [details] yum details about update
Attached everything you asked (and a bit more). Let me know if you need some other logs as well. No special configuration. Just a regular "turn on computer, pick a wifi, let it connect, and surf" process. Everything is default as it came with Fedora 17. This wireless network uses no security (neighbours wifi, heh). As for the channel, not sure if this is what you asked for, but iwlist wlan0 channel says channel 6, 2.437 GHz. Country is Serbia. Kernel is 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64.
Created attachment 694078 [details] lspci -vv -s output for wireless
Just found how I can provide more details about the wireless driver, so I attached that one as well, with crda 1.1.2 only. Let me know if you need the same for crda 1.1.3, too.
Serbia is the issue. The regulatory rules database recently added a rule for Serbia, but it only defined the rules for the new 60GHz band. Previously I think you were living with the default "world" rules, and apparently your AP is later telling you that you are in the US. That causes your machine to use the US rules instead. Actually, you are probably using the rules that the iwlwifi drivers determines are a match for your hardware, except that now the more restrictive rules for Serbia in the new database are restricting you to essentially nothing. I'll try to straighten this out upstream. For now, stick with the crda 1.1.2 package.
Thanks. I will. If you need help with testing stuff later on, let me know, I am more than happy to.
If you happen to have any way to determine the correct wireless regulatory rules for Serbia, that might be helpful too. :-)
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