[Bug 241986] New: WLAN card TI ACX 111 problems
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 Summary: WLAN card TI ACX 111 problems Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: wl@gnu.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com During installation of openSuSE 10.2, my TI ACX 111 WLAN chip (as part of a D-LINK DWL-G520+) has been correctly identified, and yast offers to configure it. However, it silently fails which isn't obvious to a user -- yast2 doesn't emit a warning; it only offers 127.0.0.1 for testing it. Reason for the failure is that the firmware for the chip (tiacx111c16 or tiacx111) isn't found by the `acx' kernel driver; `acx_pci' properly returns error code -5 (as seen with the `dmesg' command). Are there license problems to not include DLINK firmware files? I strongly suggest that yast2 gets modified to report this error so that the user can switch to another network device. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |mzugec@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 kmachalkova@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|kmachalkova@novell.com | ------- Comment #2 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-02-07 05:50 MST ------- If a wireless card need firmware, there are two ways of handling this in yast 1. either we ship the firmware with openSUSE as rpm package -> in that case all the user needs to do is to confirm installation of this package (usually on the first attempt to configure the card) 2. or we do not ship the firmware (mostly for licence reasons) -> yast informs user that a card need a firmware and advises him/her to download it from some external source (e.g. project web page) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 ------- Comment #3 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-02-07 05:59 MST ------- Since there's probably no general list of all available cards requiring firmware, I'm trying to maintain some list within yast2-network module and keep it as much up-to-date as possible. acx module _is_ on the list, so it makes me wonder why yast didn't complain in your case. You should for certain see the popup telling you to download and install firmware if you delete configuration of your card in yast (so that it sees the card as 'Not configured'), and then try to configure it again. Unless the module has actually different name (being not a kernel expert myself, I don't see the difference between acx and acx_pci modules and don't know when is one or the other used) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 kmachalkova@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|mzugec@novell.com |kmachalkova@novell.com Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 ------- Comment #4 from wl@gnu.org 2007-02-07 06:52 MST ------- Well, the card works fine now. I don't have time to re-install 10.2 completely again to find out where the problem is. Maybe it's a strange clash of selections... In case something similar happens in 10.3 I'll report it again, carefully checking the logs. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 ------- Comment #5 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-02-07 07:30 MST ------- Anyway, I'd like to know, which kernel module exactly this card uses (acx, or acx_pci) - can be found in netcard configuration 'Advanced' -> 'Hardware details' - so that I can possibly update the firmware list Secondly, maybe it would be worth trying to ask openSUSE project managers to ship acx_firmware on our media (Add-On CD, for example) for 10.3, as for example Fedora Core does. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 ------- Comment #6 from wl@gnu.org 2007-02-07 12:33 MST ------- The hardware listing says that driver_module is acx, and the driver is acx_pci -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241986 kmachalkova@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME ------- Comment #7 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-02-08 08:49 MST ------- I'm closing this as 'worksforme' since firmware popup should appear always appear for acx modules (and I can't tell why in your case it did not) Please reopen, if you see the problem again. By then (in 10.3) we should come up with nicer and more user friendly solution of configuring cards that need firmware. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
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