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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297671

           Summary: several conflicting kernel modules for wlan device get
                    loaded
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: Alpha 7
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Network
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: hartmut.meyer@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
                CC: hartmut.meyer@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: Other


This is on a Thinkpad R32 (2658 BQG). Built-in wireless device is a prism2
based mini PCI card. Will attach hwinfo later.

According to hwinfo, three different kernel modules can be chosen for this
card:

 hostap_pci
 prism2_pci
 orinoco_pci

Unfortunately all three kernel modules will be loaded on boot. With the result
that wlan isn't working:

r32:~ # lsmod | grep _pci
hostap_pci             56208  0
hostap                106372  1 hostap_pci
orinoco_pci            10880  0
orinoco                41748  1 orinoco_pci
hermes                 11136  2 orinoco_pci,orinoco
prism2_pci             68608  0
p80211                 32780  1 prism2_pci

I have to manually unload these modules and pick the only one that is working
on this paticular mini PCI card at this moment (orinoco_pci)

r32:~ # rmmod hostap_pci orinoco_pci orinoco prism2_pci
r32:~ # modprobe orinoco_pci
r32:~ # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

irda0     no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  Nickname:"Prism  I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: None
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry short limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/92  Signal level=-68 dBm  Noise level=-122 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

It isn't the network script that causes the laoding of all these modules
(rcnetwork restart after I manually unloaded the unwanted modules does not
bring them back) - and YaST2 has configured the wireless device to use the
orinoco_pci driver (prism2_pci was preselected but manually overridden).

Even then, networkmanager does not work and I have to set essid and call
ifup-dhcp for the device manually. But I guess that is another bug.


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