Bug 9262

Summary:	Network Center shows extra wifi interface which when selected shows 'Unable to find network interface for selected device'
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	claire robinson <eeeemail>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	release_blocker	CC:	alien, derekjenn, mageia, tmb
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	3beta3 3beta4
Source RPM:	drakx-net	CVE:
Status comment:

Description claire robinson 2013-03-05 16:09:27 CET

Network Center shows' Wireless (Wi-Fi) ATHER USB2.0 WLAN' as one adapter
and also 'Wireless (Wi-Fi) wlan0' as another adapter.

There is only one wifi adapter which should use carl9170 driver.

Clicking the first one gives an error 'Unable to find network interface
for selected device (using carl9170 driver)' as does clicking Configure
when it is opened.

The wlan0 one is able to be opened, sees networks, can be configured and
connects.

This also happens during network configuration after reboot installing from livedvd.

Live install
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4147101/mga3b3/2013-03-05_13-34-56.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4147101/mga3b3/2013-03-05_13-35-18.jpg

Network Center
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4147101/mga3b3/2013-03-05_14-58-24.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4147101/mga3b3/2013-03-05_14-58-40.jpg

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

claire robinson 2013-03-05 16:09:49 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => 3beta3

Comment 1 claire robinson 2013-03-05 16:15:35 CET

Derek could this be related to the patch for negative signal strength?

CC: (none) => derekjenn

Comment 2 Sander Lepik 2013-03-05 16:32:24 CET

It's not. It shows two interfaces as one is probably known by Mageia tools and the other is there as the kernel supports it with some sort of open driver. At least this is the reason for some Broadcom devices being shown twice.

CC: (none) => sander.lepik

Comment 3 claire robinson 2013-03-05 16:35:26 CET

It's atheros which uses the open carl9170 driver though, not broadcom.

Comment 4 claire robinson 2013-04-08 11:34:30 CEST

valid 3beta4

CC: (none) => tmb
Whiteboard: 3beta3 => 3beta3 3beta4

Comment 5 claire robinson 2013-04-08 11:36:02 CEST

currently in live mode of 3beta4 kde livedvd but seems to affect all installs too

Comment 6 claire robinson 2013-04-10 10:54:14 CEST

Setting release blocker as this is present on all live isos which can't be fixed after release.

Priority: Normal => release_blocker

Comment 7 AL13N 2013-04-23 13:25:38 CEST

is this really release critical? it definatly can't be fixed on live iso, but one of the two interfaces actually work right? so, it's more of a display bug?

CC: (none) => alien

Comment 8 claire robinson 2013-04-23 14:52:24 CEST

You think reviewers/novices/the community will see it that way? Please don't be too hasty to dismiss this type of bug.

I think it is actually fixed now, didn't notice it with last tests but I can't check RC live isos until tomorrow so can't say.

Comment 9 AL13N 2013-04-23 16:37:26 CEST

i'm not being dismissive about this, but i mean purely from a technical standpoint this might be less important than being unable to install or data crash.

i'm pretty sure reviewers/novices won't see it this way, but with about one week left until release and the RC already being out, i doubt it'll get fixed IF it's not already fixed :-)

Comment 10 claire robinson 2013-04-23 17:32:32 CEST

All the more reason not to reduce priority then. We shouldn't be shipping releases with obvious bugs like this. 

It would give a bad impression of the quality of the distro as a whole and not likely to encourage new contributors.

I'll check the lives tomorrow.

Comment 11 Thierry Vignaud 2013-04-23 21:46:55 CEST

Please attach (not paste) the output of "lspcidrake -v"

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 12 claire robinson 2013-04-24 12:33:38 CEST

Closing as it no longer seems present in latest Live isos

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