Re: ubuntu and NetworkManager

[Joe Barnett <thejoe gmail com>]

output of lscpi -vv:

0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306
802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at faff6000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA 
ME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

I'm using ndiswrapper driver with bcmwl5a.inf windows driver.  The
only unknown devices listed in hal-device-manager are underneath my
IEEE-1394 controller, and the wireless card shows up as "BCM4306
802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller". Details panes available:

http://sweeze.ath.cx/~jbarnett/device.jpg
http://sweeze.ath.cx/~jbarnett/pci.jpg
http://sweeze.ath.cx/~jbarnett/advanced.jpg


On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:34:24 -0500, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 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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