Bug#431751: ipw3945.ko missing from ipw3945-modules package on 686.
Package: ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686
Version: 2.6.21+1.2.1-2
Severity: grave
The driver for the Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945.ko) is missing from the ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686 package.
Also affected was the now-superseded ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-1-686; suspect build problem.
Marking severity as grave: all functionality of this package is unusable.
Diagnostic info:
af@slimer:~$ wget http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/contrib/l/linux-modules-contrib-2.6/ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686_2.6.21+1.2.1-2_i386.deb
af@slimer:~$ dpkg -c ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686_2.6.21+1.2.1-2_i386.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 603 2007-06-27 02:30 ./usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root 3641 2007-06-27 17:18 ./usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686/copyright
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./lib/modules/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/contrib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2007-06-27 17:18 ./lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/contrib/ipw3945/
af@slimer:~$ dpkg -I ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686_2.6.21+1.2.1-2_i386.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 3286 bytes: control archive= 566 bytes.
580 bytes, 13 lines control
184 bytes, 2 lines md5sums
Package: ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686
Source: linux-modules-contrib-2.6 (2.6.21-2)
Version: 2.6.21+1.2.1-2
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 52
Depends: linux-modules-2.6.21-2-686
Section: contrib/admin
Priority: optional
Description: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945) driver modules for Linux 2.6.21 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
This package provides the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945) driver
modules for the Linux kernel version 2.6.21 on Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium
II/Pentium III/Pentium 4 machines.
af@slimer:~$ dpkg --list ipw3945-modules-\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 2:2.6.18-5 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945) driver modules for Linux 2.6
ii ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4- 2.6.18+1.1.3-5 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945) driver modules for Linux 2.6.
pn ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-1- <none> (no description available)
ii ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2- 2.6.21+1.2.1-2 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945) driver modules for Linux 2.6.
Expected behaviour, after installation:
af@slimer:~$ dpkg -L ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686
/.
/lib
/lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/contrib
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/contrib/ipw3945
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/contrib/ipw3945/ipw3945.ko
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686
/usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.18-4-686/copyright
Observed behaviour, after intallation:
af@slimer:~$ dpkg -L ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686
/usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ipw3945-modules-2.6.21-2-686/copyright
/lib
/lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686
/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/contrib
/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/contrib/ipw3945
Test box is a recent lenny/testing netinstall, apt-get dist-upgraded today, and with linux-image and ipw3945-modules manually installed from sid/unstable.
I'll gladly provide more information if necessary. I'm about to check if the source package exhibits any build problems.
Cheers,
Allwyn.
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