Bug 8804

Summary:	GUI of wifi setup (drakxnet) does not show any available networks
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	High	CC:	eeeemail, mageia, molch.b, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	3beta2
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Wolfgang Bornath 2013-01-24 15:10:40 CET

Installation of ISOs Mon Jan 21, tested with install DVDs (x86_64 and i586) and KDE LiveCD (en only) for i586. Tested on x86_64 and i586 machines.
x86_64 = Atheros AR9285
i586 = Broadcom BCM4312

Both systems are connecting to my network, wifi is working. But on both machines the list of available networks in drakxnet is empty, not even the network it is connected to is showing.

A check on CLI using 'iwlist scanning' shows several networks available on channels 1 to 13. This list changes depending on my location.

No systems showing also means not being able to connect to open networks in the neighborhood or in my favourite bistro, at least not as easy as with draknet GUI.

Configuring manually in the GUI (checked with a network I know) does not work either.

Wolfgang Bornath 2013-01-24 15:11:25 CET

CC: (none) => molch.b
Whiteboard: (none) => 3beta2

Comment 1 claire robinson 2013-01-24 16:19:10 CET

CCing Thomas, I remember him saying something about ath9k.

He'll need to know of broadcom issues too.

CC: (none) => eeeemail, tmb

Manuel Hiebel 2013-01-24 16:20:26 CET

Priority: Normal => High
CC: (none) => mageia
Severity: normal => major

Comment 2 Wolfgang Bornath 2013-01-24 16:43:53 CET

Well, seems to be the issue of #8228. I used the patch on monitor.pm and it worked for ath9k. now I check for the BCM chip.

In short: it's a change of the scan results from positive to negative. Resulst with negative are not shown as available by draknet.

So it's a duplicate of #8228

Comment 3 Wolfgang Bornath 2013-01-24 17:15:38 CET

Tested with i586 with Broadcom BCM4312 - works and solves the problem.

Comment 4 claire robinson 2013-01-24 17:21:24 CET

Thanks for sticking with this Wolfgang

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8228 ***

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