Bug 450288

Summary: No wifi with intel Pro/wireless 4965
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Jan Askhoej <janaskhoej>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Helmut Schaa <hschaa>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jslaby
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Found By: Other Services Priority:
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Attachments: result of dmesg

Description Jan Askhoej 2008-11-30 07:18:34 UTC
this type of wireless not working in opensuse 11.1 RC1

This is a regression. The same Bug 440544 has been closed, but the problem still exists in RC1
Comment 1 Jiri Slaby 2008-11-30 08:50:22 UTC
Please describe your problem and attach corresponding logs.
Comment 2 Jan Askhoej 2008-11-30 09:39:44 UTC
The Wireless Card is identified correctly in Yast, but networkmanager says "wlan0 Wireless disabled". I am unable to activate or use wireless.

Here are the logs:
uname -a
Linux linux-ok9m 2.6.27.7-8-default #1 SMP 2008-11-25 00:02:37 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/sbin/lspci -nn                                            
...
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG orAGN [Kedron] Network Connection [8086:4230] (rev 61)
...

/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=15 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

/usr/sbin/iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0  Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     No scan results

lsmod |grep iwl
iwlagn                 99132  0
iwlcore                95044  1 iwlagn
rfkill                 11108  2 iwlcore
led_class               5072  1 iwlcore
mac80211              243328  2 iwlagn,iwlcore
cfg80211               28424  3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211


Hope this helps.
Comment 3 Helmut Schaa 2008-12-01 07:13:11 UTC
Could you please attach the output of dmesg and the output of "cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rfkill/rfkill0/state" after booting up?
Comment 4 Jan Askhoej 2008-12-01 08:29:38 UTC
Created attachment 256850 [details]
result of dmesg
Comment 5 Jan Askhoej 2008-12-01 08:30:41 UTC
The result of cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rfkill/rfkill0/state is 2

Thanks.
Comment 6 Jiri Slaby 2008-12-01 08:40:52 UTC
How does this differ from Bug 440544? Care to turn the RF Kill switch off?
Comment 7 Jan Askhoej 2008-12-01 09:33:37 UTC
The difference is that Bug 440544 is a request to get a fix released for opensuse 11.0 because it worked in 11.1 Beta 3. However, it is now broken again in 11.1 RC1, so it looks like a regression.

Could you let me know how to turn the RF Kill switch off? I will test it then.

Thanks.
Comment 8 Jan Askhoej 2008-12-01 11:26:29 UTC
Problem solved - please close this bug.

There is a hardware problem with the RF kill switch. I will take the laptop to the dealers in the morning.

Thanks to Jiri Slaby for pointing me in the right direction.
Comment 9 Helmut Schaa 2008-12-01 11:30:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #8 from Jan Askhoej)
> There is a hardware problem with the RF kill switch. I will take the laptop to
> the dealers in the morning.

Are you sure? The killswitch handling in the driver is not completely correct at the moment too. Working on that currently.
Comment 10 Jan Askhoej 2008-12-02 01:51:40 UTC
There might be some other problems in the driver regarding killswitch, but I wouldnt know.

I just managed to force the button to turn on the wifi, and after that wireless worked with no problems (touch wood).

best of luck on the driver.
Comment 11 Helmut Schaa 2008-12-02 08:01:52 UTC
Thanks. Closing this one as a duplicate of the killswitch bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 446158 ***