Bug 724611

Summary:	iwl3945: wlan non-functional (kernel-firmware not installed)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Juergen Weigert <jw>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	forgotten_ETh-frTLtx, roger.luedecke
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Bug Blocks:	357354

Description Juergen Weigert 2011-10-17 14:47:40 UTC

this is on a Leonovo X60s. wlan is iwl3945.

Networkmanager says, that the wlan is nonfunctional, firmware not loaded.
zypper in kernel-firmware
gave me kernel-firmware-20110709-8.2.noarch.rpm from Factory, now wlan works.

Is this missing from the laptop-pattern?

Comment 1 Forgotten User ETh-frTLtx 2011-10-30 09:13:46 UTC

Confirmed on a R61, fresh installation of 12.1 RC1 (Build0379). WLAN is (lspci): Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61). Manual installation of package kernel-firmware was needed to use wlan.

Setting priority to P3, because leaving this unsolved would cause some severe irritations for newbies if still present in 12.1 final.

Comment 2 Jiri Slaby 2011-10-31 09:48:37 UTC

@Greg: shouldn't the firmware package belong to any pattern? Otherwise people won't have it installed and the devices do not work.

Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2011-10-31 14:23:36 UTC

The installer handles this, by looking at the pci ids for the devices, and matches it up with the MODULE_FIRMWARE files, which then goes and pulls in the linux-firmware package.

Nothing I can do, I'll reassign this to the installer, perhaps something broke there.

Comment 4 Andreas Jaeger 2011-10-31 17:05:12 UTC

Coolo, any ideas? See comments #2 and #3.

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2011-11-02 12:34:19 UTC

noone pushed Kernel:HEAD/kernel-firmware since july ;(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727234 ***

Comment 6 Roger Luedecke 2012-04-20 21:09:09 UTC

The problem with it not installing seems to be common to the DVD installer, but not the LiveCD. I have also experienced this with broadcom firmware. Installing kernel-firmware got it working. Should this be filed as a new bug?