Bug 21043

Summary:	Mageia does not recognize AC600 WiFi USB Adapter (Netgear)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin <LpSolit>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2017-06-07 21:45:00 CEST

I just bought a WiFi USB Adapter for my PC, but I cannot use it to establish a wifi connection. It works correctly with Windows 10 (I have a dual boot machine Windows 10 - Mageia 5).

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:9052 NetGear, Inc. A6100 AC600 DB Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8811AU]

# lspcidrake -v
unknown         : Realtek |802.11ac WLAN Adapter  (vendor:0846 device:9052)

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
enp0s31f6  no wireless extensions.

# uname -rm
4.4.68-desktop-1.mga5 x86_64


When I use MCC to create a new WiFi connection, it asks me to use ndiswrapper. As shown above by lspcidrake, it doesn't know which driver to use with this adapter.

Comment 1 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2017-06-07 21:54:04 CEST

Note that I also have:

# rpm -qa | grep wifi
rtlwifi-firmware-20160914-1.mga5.nonfree
iwlwifi-agn-ucode-20160914-1.mga5.nonfree

# rpm -qa | grep firmware
bluez-firmware-1.2-12.mga5.nonfree
rtlwifi-firmware-20160914-1.mga5.nonfree
radeon-firmware-20160920-1.mga5.nonfree
kernel-firmware-20160409-1.mga5
ralink-firmware-20160914-1.mga5.nonfree
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20160914-1.mga5.nonfree

Rémi Verschelde 2017-06-07 21:57:46 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2017-06-08 00:15:23 CEST

That's because the driver is not in upstream kernel.org trees

So a 3rdparty "8812au" driver is now added

for Mga5: kernel-4.4.71-1.mga5 (heading to updates_testing)

for Mga6/Cauldron: kernel-4.9.31-1.mga6 (heading to release)


both currently building


Note, theese are "realtek codedrops" that has not gone through any cleaning for integration in upstream kernel, so how well they work I cant say...

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 3 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2017-06-08 19:58:33 CEST

kernel-4.9.31-1.mga6 works fine. The download and upload speeds are correct (40 Mbps for both, as expected). Nice job! :)

Unfortunately, kernel-4.4.71-1.mga5 didn't build successfully, so I cannot test it with Mageia 5.

Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2017-06-08 20:32:16 CEST

(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #3)
> kernel-4.9.31-1.mga6 works fine. The download and upload speeds are correct
> (40 Mbps for both, as expected). Nice job! :)
> 

Nice.


> Unfortunately, kernel-4.4.71-1.mga5 didn't build successfully, so I cannot
> test it with Mageia 5.


I've disabled the usupported build flag and re-submitted kernel-4.4.71-1.mga5

Comment 5 Mageia Robot 2017-06-10 04:11:50 CEST

commit 6e34c1f3365c97351f9831773dd4ff29d5409da2
Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...>
Date:   Fri Jun 9 19:30:30 2017 +0200

    list 8812au (mga#21043)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=6e34c1f3365c97351f9831773dd4ff29d5409da2

Comment 6 Thomas Backlund 2017-06-27 00:07:57 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0186.html

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