MageiaCauldron: Testing Mageia 2 Wi-Fi and other things

TestingMageia2 > Wi-Fi and other things

Testing Mageia 2 Wi-Fi and other things

On eee-pc

 lspcidrake -vv|grep -i network
rt2800pci       : Ralink corp.|RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:1814 device:0781 subv:1814 subd:2790)
atl1e           : Atheros Communications Inc.|AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:1969 device:1026 subv:1043 subd:8324) (rev: b0)

driver rtl2800 for ralink chipset
works partially
not with wpa?

works with FreeWifi and probably open wifi

It's an open network, requiring web authentication, hence should work with open wifi (using captive portal)

on Probook 6460b

lspcidrake -vv|grep -i network
wl              : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:4727 subv:103c subd:145c) (rev: 01)
e1000e          : Intel Corporation|82579V Gigabit Network Connection [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:8086 device:1503 subv:103c subd:161d) (rev: 04)

driver wl for broadcom chipset? wasn't there a new driver?
does not work
nor with NetworkManager nor drakxnet
missing firmware ?

ATL1E 0000:03:00.0: (unregistered net_device): get mac address failed
ATL1E: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -5

uname -a
Linux localhost 3.3.8-netbook-2.mga2 #1 SMP Mon Jul 30 21:47:56 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa |grep firmware|sort
bluez-firmware-1.2-6.mga1
carl9170-firmware-1.9.4-1.mga2
kernel-firmware-20120219-1.mga2
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20120421-3.mga2.nonfree
ralink-firmware-20120421-3.mga2.nonfree

lspcidrake -v|grep -i eth
atl1e : Atheros Communications Inc.|AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:1969 device:1026) (rev: b0)

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