Re: ubuntu and NetworkManager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

What driver does the card use?  Is it a PCMCIA-on-PCI wireless card at
all?  Is there an "unknown device" listed in hal-device-manager?

Dan

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:23 -0800, Joe Barnett wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:18:00 -0500, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:14 -0800, Joe Barnett wrote:
> > > interface, just about my wireless interface).  I'm using ndiswrapper
> > > for the driver, do I have to do anything to make NM know about the
> > > interface?
> > 
> > If HAL doesn't know about the interface, then NetworkManager won't.
> > What's the interface name, and what are the contents of:
> > /sys/class/net/<interface name>
> > /sys/class/net/<interface name>/type
> > 
> > You'll need to have a /sys/class/net/<interface name> for it to work.
> > If you don't, your network driver is busted and should be fixed.
> > 
> > DAn
> > 
> 
> it's wlan0:
> $ ls /sys/class/net/wlan0/
> address   broadcast  flags    iflink  statistics    type
> addr_len  features   ifindex  mtu     tx_queue_len  wireless
> $ cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/type
> 1
> 
> the PCI information about the card shows up in the hal device manager
> thingy, for whatever that is worth.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> 
> >
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