Should I bugzilla this?

vol atile volinux at gmail.com
Sat Oct 16 04:50:56 UTC 2004


I noticed the same thing with my wireless card, an Orinico mini-pci.
Deleting and reconfiguring it works, but it would be best to detect it
correctly from the beginning.


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:30:07 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz
<rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I've just noticed that the wireless network adapter (802.11b) on my IBM
> Thinkpad T23 is correctly detected, started, and working on FC3-T3 as a
> regular Ethernet adapter and labeled "eth1". From memory, it was *also*
> treated as a regular Ethernet adapter in FC2.
> 
> However, because it's considered an "eth" and not a "wlan" the options
> in System Settings -> Network (system-config-network?) are only those
> for wired Ethernet. The options for SSID, channel, WAP keys... those are
> not shown.
> 
> Should I bugzilla this? If so, what information would be useful to the
> developers so that I may include it in the bug report? This card is
> shown in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf like this:
> 
> class: NETWORK
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> device: eth1
> driver: orinoco_pci
> desc: "Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset"
> vendorId: 1260
> deviceId: 3873
> subVendorId: 1668
> subDeviceId: 0406
> pciType: 1
> pcidom:    0
> pcibus:  2
> pcidev:  2
> pcifn:  0
> 
> The output of "lspci" as root includes this line:
> 
> 02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
> chipset (rev 01)
> 
> I can see with "lsmod" that the hermes, orinoco, and orinoco_pci modules
> are loaded. Nothing else in the list looks related, but I can provide
> the whole list if necessary.
> 
> Finally, /etc/modprobe.conf has:
> 
> alias eth1 orinoco_pci
> 
> Please advise whether Bugzilla is the right path (sure looks that way to
> me), and if so whether I should include more information than what I
> have here, and how to get it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> 
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