https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297616 Summary: Yast doesn't write/save WLAN device settings Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 7 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: funtasyspace@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Created an attachment (id=155635) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=155635) tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log Yesterday I installed Alpha 7, it's the first time I installed an openSUSE 10.3 version at all. As openSUSE 10.3 ships the new mac80211 subsystem, I tried to make the 'Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG' device of my ThinkPad T60p work, using the iwlwifi driver from intellinuxwireless.org, which was written for the mac80211 subsystem. So I got the iwlwifi driver (version 0.1.8) from http://intellinuxwireless.org/ together with the microcode image (version iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.1.5). It compiles without errors and loading the iwl3945 kernel module works fine and brings up the 'wlan0' interface. Well, only the wlan LED on my ThinkPad does not light! Now the device shows up in Yast too, and it seems like it can be configured as usual. But actually it doesn't work, because the settings are not written to disk. Every time I launch the Yast network device settings section again, my WLAN device appears unconfigured. Looking in /etc/sysconfig/network reveals, that no configuration file for the wlan devices is ever created. I nearly tried all possible settings in Yast by now, just to see if it will save the configuration to /etc/sysconfig/network/ under any circumstances, but that never happened. In contrast, the settings of my wired e1000 device are written to /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 with no problem. Next I tried copying the configuration of my wlan device from my openSUSE 10.2 configuration, to see if Yast will recognize and read it, at least. On openSUSE 10.2 the configuration file of my wlan device had the filename ifcfg-wlan-id-00:10:20:30:40:50 (where 00:10:20:30:40:50 is not my real mac address, I just don't want to post it here). Copying that file to /etc/sysconfig/network on openSUSE 10.3, won't let Yast detect the configuration, the device still appears as not configured in Yast. An 'rcnetwork restart' won't use the configuration, too. Here the output: wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) No configuration found for wlan0 unused Well, renaming 'ifcfg-wlan-id-00:10:20:30:40:50' to 'ifcfg-wlan0' causes the configuration to be recognized by ifup and rcnetwork start/restart will successfully establish a connection with my access point. Anyway, even now my wlan0 device still doesn't show up as configured in Yast. I also tried the 'User Controlled with NetworkManager' Option, but this way, I can only connect using WEP encryption. WPA doesn't work with NetworkManager. Anyway, since I make heavy use of SCPM, NetworkManager is not really an option for me. I come to the conclusion, that this is a YaST problem, because manually creating the ifcfg file and placing it in /etc/sysconfig/network works well. Next I did a 'tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log' to find out, why Yast doesn't write down the configuration for the wlan interface, but for the wired interface. I append the complete output as a file to this post. Interesting are the lines where it says: 2007-08-05 16:34:27 <1> myhost(21379) [YCP] NetworkModules.ycp:220 No changes to netcard modules -> nothing to write 2007-08-05 16:34:27 <1> myhost(21379) [YCP] NetworkDevices.ycp:651 No changes to netcard devices -> nothing to write I hope this information helps to track down the problem. Regards, Jörg -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.