Bug 22524

Summary:	Mageia (kernel 4.14.13) does not recognize AC600 WiFi USB Adapter (Netgear)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jean-Claude BRETHOME <jbrethome>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	tmb
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jean-Claude BRETHOME 2018-02-05 12:28:07 CET

Mageia 6.
By moving from kernel 4.9.56 to kernel 4.14.13 my AC600 WiFi USB Adapter (Netgear) is no more recognized. Switching back to 4.9.56 at boot time is fixing the problem, switching back again to 4.14.13 is creating the problem and so on.

It seems this is again the manifestation of BUG-21043 which was reported by Frederic Buclin while moving from kernel 4.4.68 to newer one, see : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21043

My own similar traces :
[root@localhost /]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:9052 NetGear, Inc. A6100 AC600 DB Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8811AU]

[root@localhost /]# lspcidrake -v | grep -i real
r8169 : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8136 subv:1462 subd:7529) (rev: 02)
unknown : Realtek |802.11ac WLAN Adapter (vendor:0846 device:9052)

[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
enp3s0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost /]# uname -rm
4.14.13-desktop-1.mga6 x86_64

[root@localhost /]# rpm -qa | grep wifi
rtlwifi-firmware-20171220-1.mga6.nonfree
iwlwifi-firmware-20171220-1.mga6.nonfree
networkmanager-wifi-1.8.0-1.mga6

[root@localhost /]# rpm -qa | grep firmware
kernel-firmware-20170531-1.mga6
ralink-firmware-20171220-1.mga6.nonfree
bluez-firmware-1.2-13.mga6.nonfree
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20171220-1.mga6.nonfree
rtlwifi-firmware-20171220-1.mga6.nonfree
radeon-firmware-20180118-1.mga6.nonfree
iwlwifi-firmware-20171220-1.mga6.nonfree
[root@localhost /]#

Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2018-02-06 16:57:26 CET

Ah, sorry about that...

upstream linux code changes caused the driver not to be built even if it was enabled in defconfigs :/

I have updated the driver so it builds properly again, so it will available in the upcoming 4.14.18 kernel (should be released upstream tomorrow)

CC: (none) => tmb

Thomas Backlund 2018-02-06 16:57:52 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel
Source RPM: (none) => kernel

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2018-02-08 07:37:11 CET

There is now a 4.14.18-1.mga6 in updates_testing that should resolve this

Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2018-02-11 19:51:27 CET

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

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0125.html

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