Bug 8651

Summary:	unable to connect with wifi
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	barry marchant <barry-m>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	correo, ftg
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description barry marchant 2013-01-11 04:24:49 CET

I have purchased a Realtek usb dongle. lsusb sees it as Obda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Modprobe shows the following modules loaded for it :rtl8192cu, rtlwifi, rtl8192c common,mac80211, cfg80211, usbcore.

Much midnight oil has been burnt searching the web to get it going, without success. I see there have been other bug reports re this dongle.

MCC does not set it up correctly. Networkmanager gnome is not installed

ifup wlan0 says 'configured with a roaming daemon but isnt associated' and 'failed no link present'

Can it be made to work in Mageia2?

TIA
Barry

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2013-01-11 23:08:11 CET

iwlist scan is working ? 

>MCC does not set it up correctly. Networkmanager gnome is not installed

this mean nothing and for networkmanager: urpmi networkmanager and then be sure that the NM_CONTROLLED in the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-yourcard is set to yes

Comment 2 barry marchant 2013-01-15 03:50:44 CET

I installed nm then rebooted. iwlist sees wlan0 but only immediately after each reboot. ifup wlan0 is skipped because nm is installed and then iwlist can not see the router.

NM_CONTROLLED is set to yes.

If iwlist can see the modem then it shows in Network Centre but will not connect.

If I set NM_CONTROLLED to no then ifup wlan0 returns 'wlan0 is configured with a roaming daemon but is'nt associated' & 'no link present'

Comment 3 barry marchant 2013-01-15 04:23:21 CET

I installed nm then rebooted. iwlist sees wlan0 but only immediately after each reboot. ifup wlan0 is skipped because nm is installed and then iwlist can not see the router.

NM_CONTROLLED is set to yes.

If iwlist can see the modem then it shows in Network Centre but will not connect.

If I set NM_CONTROLLED to no then ifup wlan0 returns 'wlan0 is configured with a roaming daemon but is'nt associated' & 'no link present'

Comment 4 Frank Griffin 2013-01-15 12:46:42 CET

Go check out bug#2160.  Just installing NM isn't enough if you're using KDE.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 5 barry marchant 2013-01-22 10:25:15 CET

reinstalled mageia2 + pkgs for wifi.

checked bug#2164. I note it applies to caldron on a x86-64 but my problems are much the same. My system is Mageia 2 x86-32 running on a 64bit machine. 'iwlist scan' usually finds the link after a reboot but not after an attempt to connect using Network Center etc.

dmesg gives msg 'ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): link is not ready"

Is this unit known to work?????

thanks

Barry

Comment 6 Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez 2013-03-18 11:44:11 CET

It has problems with recent kernels. See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866786

CC: (none) => samuel_ig

Comment 7 Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez 2013-03-18 11:45:49 CET

Related bug: bug#8754

Comment 8 Manuel Hiebel 2013-03-19 00:14:51 CET

ah thanks samuel

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8754 ***

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