Bug 5072

Summary:	mageia2b2,wifi no wifi lan detected
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	episteme promeneur <epistemepromeneur>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Olivier Blin <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-net	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	lspcidrake -v result

Description episteme promeneur 2012-03-23 11:32:13 CET

Description of problem:

linksys WMP600N (RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI chipset )

if i use drakroam to detect a wifi lan
then
no wifi lan is detected

i think the free driver rt2800 for my wifi adapter is not good

with my mandriva 2010.2 (kernel 3.1.6) the linksys adapter works :

- almost well with the firmware rt2860.bin (default mandriva installation) (RT2860_Firmware_V26.zip) from ralink support

- well with more recent rt2860sta (2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2) from ralink support 

- the free driver rt2800pci has more functionalities than ralink driver but is not reliable some time it works sometime not

addendum : it would be a good thing to have a tool as handy as the display manager
according to install the free driver or the ralink driver or the ndis/windows driver. today we can only choose between linux or ndis/windows driver.
it's not easy for a non technie to ask to system for not using kernel driver and using the ralink driver

Thierry Vignaud 2012-03-23 19:51:44 CET

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

Thierry Vignaud 2012-03-23 19:51:50 CET

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 1 episteme promeneur 2012-04-19 15:22:04 CEST

mageia 2 beta 3 x86_64 dvd

pb still there : no wifi lan in the list

in hardrake tool
in ethernet i see the list of the adapters contains my wifi adapter but not my eternet adapter

strange !

Comment 2 episteme promeneur 2012-04-28 16:54:32 CEST

with last update i now can see the wifi lans

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

Comment 3 episteme promeneur 2012-05-11 17:36:29 CEST

mageia 2 rc

pb still there, see bug description

the pb is :
 the installer does not install the firmware rt2860.bin of the ralink chipset

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

Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2012-05-11 17:46:22 CEST

How did you install ? From DVD?

if so, this is expected as DVDs does not contain any nonfree stuff

You need ralink-firmware from nonfree media

Comment 5 episteme promeneur 2012-05-11 17:50:55 CEST

yes from dvd iso

Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-11 22:07:07 CEST

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:07:58 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Comment 7 episteme promeneur 2012-07-17 14:14:20 CEST

mageia 2 x86_64

pb still there

we must install the packet "ralink-firmware" from nonfree source

perhaps it would be a good thing to add an errata saying "for ralink wifi adapter add the packet ralink-firmware from nonfree source"

Comment 8 Manuel Hiebel 2012-07-18 00:17:07 CEST

feel free to do so, anyway, drakconnect should offer it, so closing

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-net

Olivier Blin 2012-07-18 08:43:06 CEST

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: WORKSFORME => (none)

Comment 9 Olivier Blin 2012-07-18 08:44:45 CEST

drakx-net should offer it, we did some fixes about ralink firmwares before Mageia 2 final.
Please attach the result of "lspcidrake -v" so that we can check if our fix was ok.
Thanks

Status: REOPENED => ASSIGNED

Olivier Blin 2012-07-18 08:44:55 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 10 episteme promeneur 2012-07-18 10:07:41 CEST

more accurate definition :

during mageia installation the wifi connection is created as well as the ethernet connection (i have two adapters) but the ralink firmware is not installed.

Comment 11 episteme promeneur 2012-07-18 10:10:04 CEST

Created attachment 2565 [details]
lspcidrake -v result

Comment 12 Olivier Blin 2012-07-22 22:49:11 CEST

This should be fixed in drakx-net 1.13
It will now install ralink-firmware for rt2800pci or rt2800usb drivers.

Please reopen if still broken for you after this update.

Also, it will not be installed from currenet DVD install, since the DVD images do not contain non-free drivers (at least up to Mageia 2).

Though, network tools will offer to install the firmware when configuring the connection.

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