Checkbox Provider - Base

802.11 ac Wireless cases are skipped

Bug #1439044 reported by Scott Hu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Checkbox Provider - Base
Fix Released
High
Sylvain Pineau
Checkbox Provider - Base 0.20

Bug Description

Steps:
1. install manifest X03 and boot into OS
2. try to manually connect WiFi AP which set up with 802.11ac, observe it can be connected normally
3. Execute the checkbox testcases related with it below:
wireless/wireless_connection_open_ac
wireless/wireless_connection_wpa_ac
suspend/wireless_connection_after_suspend_open_ac
suspend/wireless_connection_after_suspend_wpa_ac

Actual results:
job cannot be started: resource expression "IEEE_80211.ac == 'supported'" evaluates to false

Expected results:
job can be started normally

Additional information:
SKU: TUCZ4-E3-C1
wireless: DW1560
manifest: dell-bto-trusty-tulip-amd-X03-iso-20150313-0.iso
BIOS: x17
CPU: AMD E2-7110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics
Manufacturer: Dell Inc
Model: Inspiron 5455

Related branches

lp://qastaging/~sylvain-pineau/checkbox/fix-1439044
Zygmunt Krynicki (community): Approve
Sylvain Pineau (community): Needs Resubmitting
Ara Pulido (community): Needs Information
Diff: 165 lines (+65/-18)
1 file modified
providers/plainbox-provider-resource-generic/src/80211_resource.c (+65/-18)
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Scott Hu (huntu207) wrote :
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
status: New → Confirmed
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Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report Scott, could you please add the output of:

lspci -nnv

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Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau) wrote :

It would be useful to also get the output of iw list:

sudo apt-get install iw
iw list

But not using the 14.04 version of this package because it does not report AC features.
Instead please manually install the deb package from vivid:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/i/iw/iw_3.17-1_amd64.deb

The install it with:

sudo dpkg -i ./iw_3.17-1_amd64.deb

Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Scott Hu (huntu207) wrote :
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Scott Hu (huntu207) wrote :
  • iw Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain)
Scott Hu (huntu207)
tags: removed: tulip-amd
Scott Hu (huntu207)
summary: - Checkbox cannot normally execute the 802.11 ac Wireless cases
+ 802.11 ac Wireless cases are skipped
Jerry Kao (jerry.kao)
tags: added: ce-qa-concern
Revision history for this message
Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau) wrote :

Checkbox uses a lite version of iw to get the wireless capabilities of the embedded chip. Unfortunately several Broadcom devices are not reporting their properties to libnl, hence the resource job stating "IEEE_80211.ac == 'supported'" evaluates to false.

I'm not even sure that network manager knows the capabilities of the chip.

Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
assignee: nobody → Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
milestone: none → 0.20
Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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