Bug 24301

Summary:	wifi connection crashed
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Gilbert BONNET <gilbertbonnet>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ghibomgx, kernel, marja11, ouaurelien, tmb
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	log.txt output of the commands lspcidrake -v et lsusb

Description Gilbert BONNET 2019-02-02 21:00:04 CET

Description of problem:

Dongle Wifi 802.11n WLAN NIC was perfectly running under Mageia 6

Under Mageia 7  kernel 4.20.6-desktop-2.mga7 this dongle is recognized by the system but after the configuration there is an error message telling it was impossible to connect.

I precise that an very old dongle 802.11g that i use for emergency is running with the same configuration without any problem.

Thanks for answers.

Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2019-03-02 15:04:29 CET

Component: Bugzilla => RPM Packages
Version: unspecified => 7
Product: Infrastructure => Mageia
Assignee: sysadmin-bugs => bugsquad

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2019-03-04 20:23:40 CET

Thanks, Frédéric, I hadn't seen this bug report :-/

@ Gilbert

Please attach log.txt that is the result of running, as root, 

   journalctl -b > log.txt

after booting the system with the dongle attached and then configuring it.

If you can still boot Mageia 6 or boot with a Mageia 6 kernel and see your dongle work fine, then please run  the same command and attach that log, too.

CC: sysadmin-bugs => kernel, marja11

Comment 2 Gilbert BONNET 2019-03-06 20:59:18 CET

Created attachment 10845 [details]
log.txt

Comment 3 Gilbert BONNET 2019-03-06 21:00:28 CET

Bonjour Marja

I send to you the log.txt file you asked to me. You will see I have
tried to connect twice with the dongle without success

Sorry I can't return to Mageia 6 because I'm not using Virtualbox to
test Mageia 7.

G. BONNET

Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2019-03-06 21:37:01 CET

The wifi driver is having issues:

r8188eu: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.

mars 06 19:46:01 localhost.localdomain ifplugd(wlp0s29u1u1)[1638]: Using interface wlp0s29u1u1/80:3F:5D:20:F8:A1 with driver <r8188eu> (version: )
mars 06 19:46:01 localhost.localdomain ifplugd(wlp0s29u1u1)[1638]: Using detection mode: wireless extension
mars 06 19:46:01 localhost.localdomain kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp0s29u1u1: link is not ready
mars 06 19:46:01 localhost.localdomain ifplugd(wlp0s29u1u1)[1638]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected.


There is now a kernel 5.0.0 building so sometimes tomorrow you should be able to test if the driver has improved there

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

Comment 5 Gilbert BONNET 2019-03-07 07:51:21 CET

Bonjour

No improvement with kernel 5.0.0

Comment 6 Thomas Backlund 2019-03-07 08:04:17 CET

ok, so the driver I backported in mga6 seems to work better :/

Can you with the wifi dongle connected to the computer,

and then attach the output of the commands:

lspcidrake -v

lsusb


to this bugreport

Comment 7 Gilbert BONNET 2019-03-07 15:49:39 CET

Created attachment 10849 [details]
output of the commands lspcidrake -v et lsusb

This is the output of the commands

Comment 8 Gilbert BONNET 2019-03-07 15:54:13 CET

The driver is RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter

Comment 9 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-09-20 16:59:51 CEST

What about the status of this?

CC: (none) => ouaurelien

Comment 10 Gilbert BONNET 2020-09-20 19:35:31 CEST

(In reply to Aurelien Oudelet from comment #9)
> What about the status of this?

Nothing have change: its Impossible to use Dongle Wifi 802.11n WLAN NIC
with Mageia 7 with the last Kernel 5.7.19-desktop-1.mga7 64 bits.

This dongle run with Win 7 on the same PC (Double Boot).

Comment 11 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-09-20 20:45:16 CEST

Ping: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu for the kernel module. Seems it has support for 5.8 kernel

Comment 12 Giuseppe Ghibò 2020-09-23 20:33:15 CEST

For cauldron, the kernel module for 5.8 is still in staging (and is called r8188eu.ko).

Does the one from lwfinger works? It can be tried manually (outside packaging) using:

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu
cd rtl8188eu
make
make install

it compiles smootly. The alternative module is called 8188eu.ko. If that works better we can maybe include the one from lwfinger as 3rdparty.

CC: (none) => ghibomgx

Comment 13 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-07-06 13:15:26 CEST

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Comment 14 Marja Van Waes 2021-09-07 14:11:23 CEST

Hi bug reporter and hi assignee and others involved,

Please reopen this bug report if it is still valid for Mageia 8 or 9(cauldron), and change "Version:" in the upper left of this report accordingly.

This report is being closed as OLD because it was filed against Mageia 7, for which  support ended on June 30th 2021.

Thanks,
Marja

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