Bug 5295

Summary:	Mageia 2 Beta 2, AR9285 WiFi not functioning
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joe Da Silva <digital>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	theamazingchiepoo
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Joe Da Silva 2012-04-09 01:28:31 CEST

Description of problem:
Updated from Mageia 1 to Mageia 2 Beta 2. WiFi no longer working.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 2, Beta 2

How reproducible:
Update applied.

Comment 1 Joe Da Silva 2012-04-09 01:29:17 CEST

bug 2939 lists older Mageia 1 and the newer Mageia 2 lspidrake -v outputs (if that helps).

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-09 04:12:16 CEST

seems an upstream bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810678
and should be resolved in fact: http://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-April/013887.html

what is your kernel ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Source RPM: (none) => kernel

Comment 3 Joe Da Silva 2012-04-09 08:31:25 CEST

kernel-desktop586-3.3.0-0.rc7.1.mga2
kernel-desktop586-latest

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-09 13:41:27 CEST

(In reply to comment #3)
> kernel-desktop586-3.3.0-0.rc7.1.mga2
> kernel-desktop586-latest

then yes, update you cauldron first

Comment 5 Remco Rijnders 2012-04-10 09:04:51 CEST

*** Bug 5325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => theamazingchiepoo

Comment 6 Remco Rijnders 2012-04-10 09:24:28 CEST

Hi Joe,

I assume the fix mentioned above (install latest kernel from Cauldron) solves this problem for you as well. Feel free to reopen this report if this is not the case.

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

Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-11 00:41:44 CEST

*** Bug 5338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Joe Da Silva 2012-04-11 07:20:38 CEST

Since this tablet computer has no ethernet port, I had to find a way to get the latest kernel in using USBmemory, but it is working now.

After loading the new kernel, the only other option that I needed to modify from the default was to turn-off "Allow interface to be controlled by network manager" since it doesn't seem to work with it turned on. I don't recall 100% right now, but I think this was the same option I needed to turn-off for Mageia 1 to work automatically also. If I was going to take a guess, it would be that either, network manager does not work, or that it probably runs too soon before either the WiFi has a chance to get setup, or perhaps before the WiFi has a chance to load whatever firmware may be needed by the AR9285 if we assume its a software-style WiFi card.

Consider the kernel upgrade from Beta 2 to relove/fix the problem.

Thanks.