Fedora 11 RC1 installation testing

[Bill Davidsen]

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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