Bug 12197

Summary: Network Centre status show duplicate WiFi panels
Product: Mageia Reporter: Maurice Batey <maurice77>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: mageia, nic, thierry.vignaud
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: drakx-net-2.7.1.mga4.src.rpm 28/12/13 CVE:
Status comment:

Description Maurice Batey 2014-01-04 15:38:31 CET 
Description of problem:

After login and clicking on the 'green fan' WiFi connection icon in Panel, Network Centre shows TWO WiFi panels:

The 1st WiF panel is a dud - no SSID's shown, and if selected it shows the message:

  "Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.l/b/g/n

   Unable to find network interface for selected device.
   (Using bcma driver)"

The 2nd WiFi panel is the genuine one (now labelled "wl1s0" instead of 
the familiar "WLAN"), and showing local SSID's.

The dud panel will be very confusing for any newcomer to Mageia...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  drakx-net-2.7.1.mga4.src.rpm   28/12/13

How reproducible:

  Any time after login

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 32-bit Mageia-4-Beta3 on Samsung NC110 netbook (Broadcom 43225 WiFi)
2. Invoke Network Centre (if already connected, click on 'green fan' icon in Panel)
3.

N.B See similar report in Comment 7 etc. in:
        https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6675 


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Maurice Batey 2014-01-04 18:28:10 CET 
*** Bug 12198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Maurice Batey 2014-01-04 18:35:02 CET 
N.B. This was a new install of Mageia, with no explicit blacklisting of drivers.
Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-05 19:03:28 CET

CC: (none) => mageia, thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Nic Baxter 2015-12-24 03:31:59 CET 
Any updates

CC: (none) => nic

Comment 4 Maurice Batey 2015-12-24 18:26:52 CET 
Problem persists here with 32-bit Mageia-5 on same netbook.

(But does not occur on non-Broadcom WiFi on Toshiba laptop.)
Comment 5 Maurice Batey 2015-12-24 18:43:59 CET 
P.S. Also persists here on Cauldron on Broadcom netbook...
Comment 6 Nic Baxter 2015-12-26 07:26:34 CET 
As noted in comment 4 this only happens with the Broadcom WiFi chip so unless some else has that chip support is going to rather difficult. Since Network Centre is showing two green fans it might be two devices are detected. What does lspci show? What modules are loaded?
Comment 7 Maurice Batey 2015-12-26 19:05:26 CET 
Only 1 'green fan' shows in Panel, but if go into Network Centre there is the
confusing intruding and confusing entry for 'Broadcom' showing no SSIDs


$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 05)
Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-16 15:55:11 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Comment 8 Maurice Batey 2017-07-13 19:05:11 CEST 
Problem no longer occurs in Mageia-6.
Comment 9 Rémi Verschelde 2017-07-13 21:08:53 CEST 
Closing.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED