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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Please include iwlwifi driver | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 | Reporter: | Jörg Hermsdorf <funtasyspace> |
| Component: | Network | Assignee: | Ruediger Oertel <ro> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Critical | ||
| Priority: | P3 - Medium | CC: | casualprogrammer, felipe.alvarez, felix, kerekfyp, mfrueh, riggwelter, ro |
| Version: | Beta 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 10.3 | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Jörg Hermsdorf
2007-08-05 15:27:09 UTC
iwlwifi has been in STABLE for a while, don't know why it did not make it into FACTORY yet. I don't know either. They were approved for production on 06-22 Ok, there was a wrong flag set in the package database. iwlwifi should arrive in FACTORY soon. Confirmed. I just installed Beta1, the driver is now included via the package iwlwifi-kmp-default. (In reply to comment #7 from Jörg Hermsdorf) > Confirmed. I just installed Beta1, the driver is now included via the package > iwlwifi-kmp-default. Could you provide a link please? I cannot find it on any mirrors ... Btw. I have a selfcompiled iwlwifi (iwlwifi-0.1.8.tgz iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.1.5.tgz) running at the moment and it is unreliable ... Will report bugs as soon as using official suse packages ... Why is the ipw3945 replaced? Couldn't both packages be on the media? It's not in the Factory tree though. (OSS or Non-OSS) Somehow the distribution flag setting for this package is broken in the package database, Christoph Thiel is aware of that. iwlwifi is not in factory yet, and also not on the Beta1 DVD, but on the KDE and Gnome CDs. I expect it to be fixed and sync'd soon. *** Bug 299208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** We have published the missing packages as an optional online update at http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/ *** Bug 297123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Bug 297123 is only related, not a duplicate. As Bug 297123 points out iwlwifi is only an experimental driver ( according to Intel ), vital functionality is not provided by the new driver. There should be at least an option to choose between the proven ipw3945 and the experimental iwlwifi. *** Bug 299700 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Can it be true that this is not added to the repository yet ? I can either skip updating to the newest Kernel offered or else compile the driver manually again. Where's the big problem ? We are looking into this problem... Not sure what this is going to be. First somebody reports a missing driver ( Bug 299208 ) then somebody else requests inclusion of another driver ( Bug 299208 ) as enhancement. Then the original problem gets marked as duplicate of the second one, which should have been marked INVALID right from the beginning, as the new driver was intended to be included anyway ( hence the dropping of the old driver, Bug 299208 ). All in all, the new driver so far is included _only_ in the beta1 KDE iso. Therefore quite a few people relying on the original driver get ignored. Yet "we are looking into this problem...", like other people look into their empty glasses at the local wine festivities. I'm sure you can do better. Or is this yet another contest for the most annoying bug madness ?? P.S. I forgot "Critical" vs "P3- Medium" ok, first of all: the iwlwifi driver is available in the 10.3 online update repository together with the update kernel for 10.3 the firmware for the iwlwifi driver is in the non-oss tree for FACTORY the iwlwifi driver was not yet in FACTORY because of a setup bug for that package, I'm fixing that right now. For (re-)inclusion of the older driver please use a separate bug, I'm not the package maintainer of either driver variant and (sorry) can't help about that. I think this one can be closed / set to fixed!? iwlwifi and their firmware images are in Beta2 and Factory now for a while. closing. |