Re: rt3070sta not controllable with networkmanager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 22:00 -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote:
> Can you clarify what I need to do in my driver's config.mk file? The
> only reference to network manager I saw was the following:
> 
> 
> 
> # Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger [sic]
> HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

Correct, because only with that code does the following block happen:

#ifdef NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT
	/* for supporting Network Manager.
	  * Set the sysfs physical device reference for the network logical device if set prior to registration will 
	  * cause a symlink during initialization.
	 */
#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,0))
	SET_NETDEV_DEV(net_dev, &(usb_dev->dev));
#endif
#endif /* NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT */

Strong work, Ralink.  At least they make the effort for cfg80211 support
though.  It eludes my why this is an option, since every other driver in
the Linux kernel is expected to set up sysfs device links correctly.

Dan

> 
> 
> I have not tried the rt2x00 driver, the wiki main page does not
> mention my card, but I guess it is similar enough that it should work?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> dan
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Steev Klimaszewski <steev steev net>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Dan O'Connor
>         <beguiledfoil gmail com> wrote:
>         > Greetings,
>         >
>         > I have an rt3070sta based wifi usb adapter. I've actually
>         got it working,
>         > but I have to manually connect it to the correct ap (using
>         ifconfig,
>         > iwconfig, and dhcpcd) and cannot use NetworkManager. When
>         starting
>         > NetworkManager --no-daemon I get the following output:
>         > NetworkManager: <info> starting...
>         > NetworkManager: <info> modem-manager is now available
>         >
>         > (NetworkManager:5268): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_error_free:
>         assertion `error !=
>         > NULL' failed
>         > NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red
>         Hat, Inc. To
>         > report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
>         > NetworkManager: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch;
>         enabled by state
>         > file
>         > NetworkManager: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch;
>         enabled by state
>         > file
>         > NetworkManager: Ignoring insecure configuration file
>         >
>         '/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/.keep_net-misc_networkmanager-0'
>         > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier is OFF
>         > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver:
>         'r8169')
>         > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as
>         > /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
>         > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now managed
>         > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2
>         (reason 2)
>         > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
>         > NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason:
>         2).
>         > NetworkManager: Added default wired connection 'Auto eth0'
>         for
>         > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.6/0000:08:00.0/net/eth0
>         > NetworkManager: <WARN>
>         device_creator(): /sys/devices/virtual/net/ra0:
>         > couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
>         > * status: started
>         > NetworkManager: <WARN> default_adapter_cb(): bluez error
>         getting default
>         > adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service
>         files
>         >
>         > The only important/unexpected line as far as I can tell is
>         that it couldn't
>         > determine the device driver for ra0, my wifi device. It
>         seems odd to me that
>         > this device is in a "virtual" device folder, is that part of
>         the problem?
>         > I'm at a total loss as to how NetworkManager is expecting to
>         relate the
>         > device to its driver.
>         >
>         > The distro I'm using is Gentoo, and I configured the kernel
>         myself. I also
>         > compiled the wifi driver myself (even had to make some
>         modifications to get
>         > it to compile.. nothing major, just update some function
>         names and add a
>         > license tag).
>         > I'm not sure what other info would be helpful in solving
>         this problem, I
>         > will try to be prompt with any requests for more
>         information.
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         > Dan O.
>         
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>         >
>         
>         You need to turn on Network Manager support in the config.mk
>         file.
>         Out of curiosity, is rt2x00 not working for you, or is it just
>         not
>         stable enough?
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