Fedora 11 RC1 installation testing

[Partha Bagchi]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> Partha Bagchi wrote:
>>
>> I am testing RC1. I have to say that using ath9k is more problematic
>> than before. Now, I can't get a signal in my backyard, where the
>> connection icon shows a 40% signal, ping says destination host is
>> unreachable when pinging the router:
>> ping 192.168.1.1
>> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>>
>>> From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>>> From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
>>
>> ^C
>> --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
>> 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time
>> 5224ms
>>
> I believe that you will find this is a rounting problem, and IIRC there is a
> default route to the destination, else you would get "no route to host," but
> some network node refused to pass the packets, and retuned the ICMP packets
> saying so.
>
> If "netstat -rn" doesn't shed any light on this, use of tcpdump may. I don't
> find any useful (to me) information in the rest of this, it is as I expect.
> I suppose that you could get this behavior if the route were in place but
> the router didn't correctly handle the packets, or wasn't passing icmp. You
> comment on "nearer" suggests that.
>
> My experience has been that other than the fact that the checkbox for
> starting a connection at boot is still a decoration rather than a feature,
> FC11 is working slightly better than FC10 on my laptops.
>
> Hope any of this helps.
>
>> uname -a
>> Linux Bordeaux 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:28:22
>> EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> lspci:
>> ...
>> 06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X
>> Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
>> ...
>>
>> [partha at Bordeaux ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i network
>> NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.i586
>> NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc11.i586
>> system-config-network-1.5.97-1.fc11.noarch
>> NetworkManager-glib-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.i586
>> NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc11.i586
>> system-config-network-tui-1.5.97-1.fc11.noarch
>> NetworkManager-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.i586
>> NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-4.fc11.i586
>>
>> No additional information in /var/log/messages.
>>
>> Was working fine in Fedora 10 and also, works fine when I am"nearer"
>> to the router. Seems to me some sort of regression.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Partha
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:22 PM, James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:10 +0100, Paul Black wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2009/5/28 James Laska wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where can we get RC1?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've buried the link under the "What to test" section -
>>>>>
>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC1_Install_Test_Results#What_To_Test
>>>>
>>>> Will these be available via rsync?
>>>>
>>>> I've tried the instructions here:
>>>>
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Building_an_ISO_image_for_testing
>>>> and they don't work; "rsync rsync://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt" shows
>>>> the stage directory is not present.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't believe these will be available for rsync.  My
>>> understanding is they are made available for high-bandwith testers to
>>> assist with release candidate validation.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> James
>>>
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I am not sure I understand what you are saying. Perhaps that is my problem.

I don't believe 'netstat -m' exists? What am I looking for here?

Also, do you expect the output of tcpdump when I am further away from
the router? I should mention that the router is in the basement and I
am able to get a fine signal on the ground floor. When I step outside
a few feet away that I cannot get a signal. I did not have this
problem with Fedora 10, same hardware.

Are you familiar with ath9k?

Thanks for your help.

Partha