Bug 696843

Summary:	Firmware from kernel-firmware package isn't automatically installed
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Andrew Joakimsen <andrew>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Martin Vidner <mvidner>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	locilka
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Description Andrew Joakimsen 2011-05-29 23:48:48 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

When attempting to setup a ra73usb WiFi card YaST does not automatically install the required firmware, despite that it's freely distributed in the kernel-firmware package

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in ra73usb WiFi adapater
2. Enter YaST > Network Card

Actual Results:  
A message about installing firmware is shown

Expected Results:  
A prompt to INSTALL the firmware should be shown, e.g. like when entering yast2 samba-server when the smbd packages are not installed.

I think this is happening with other WiFi cards and even on openSUSE 11.4:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user/127081

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2012-01-04 09:11:55 UTC

Is this still an issue with the latest openSUSE release?

Comment 2 Martin Vidner 2013-09-09 13:23:39 UTC

Please reopen if you are able to provide the requested information.