Re: ndiswrapper and NetworkManager, and sysfs/HAL

[Joe Barnett <thejoe gmail com>]

if it helps at all, here is the contents of syslog when I start dbus
(and hence, networkamanger)


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:51:22 -0800, Joe Barnett <thejoe gmail com> wrote:
> I applied the patch to ndiswrapper 0.10, and now have both a driver
> and a device symlink in the /sys/class/net/wlan0 directory that seem
> to point to the correct device and driver, but NetworkManager still
> doesn't seem to be working, with the same symptoms I saw before.  I
> also noticed in the syslog taht NetworkManager is not detecting any
> wireless devices:
> 
> AUTO: Best wireless device = (null) (null).
> 
> I've updated http://sweeze.ath.cx/~jbarnett/advanced.jpg with the new
> "Advanced" tab in hal-device-manager.  The PCI and Device tabs are
> unchanged.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Joe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:14:14 -0500, Joe Ammond <joe ammond org> wrote:
> > Dan Williams scribbled:
> > > Great!!  I've seen about 10 people using ndiswrapper so far that are
> > > having problems, both on this list and Fedora lists.  Could you post the
> > > patch to this list (or email it to me, I'm interested in it)?  How hard
> > > will it be to get upstream?
> >
> > I'm attaching it and CC:ing this list as well as the
> > ndiswrapper-general list.  I don't know how difficult this will
> > be to get included upstream.  It was a farily trivial patch to
> > get working.  This patch is against wrapper.c from ndiswrapper-0.11.
> >
> > Caveats: this is my first delving into kernel code.  The USB patches
> > are untested, as I don't have any USB/ndiswrapper devices.  The
> > kludge of passing NULL as the device if the kernel rev is <2.6 is
> > icky, but it works.
> >
> > > What the ndiswrapper developers have to understand is that their stuff
> > > is fundamentally broken until they support sysfs.  They don't really
> > > need a 'driver' link (though it would be really, really nice), but a
> > > 'device' link is almost mandatory.  It has to get done in ndiswrapper
> > > because the Windows drivers, of course, aren't going to set a NETDEV on
> > > themselves :)
> >
> > Can't imagine why.  :)
> >
> > > Dan
> >
> > ja.
> > --
> > Joe Ammond                                                  joe ammond org
> >               My new toy: http://www.ammond.org/Spitfire
> >
> > 
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> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Nov  5 17:55:06 localhost NetworkManager: starting...
Nov  5 17:55:06 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
Nov  5 17:55:06 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24c6
Nov  5 17:55:06 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24c5
Nov  5 17:55:06 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24ca
Nov  5 17:55:06 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_host_1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_1_0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_22_0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_host_0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_0_0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_8
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_8, key = volume.is_mounted, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_8, key = volume.fstype, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_8, key = volume.mount_point, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_7
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_7, key = volume.is_mounted, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_7, key = volume.fstype, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_7, key = volume.mount_point, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_6
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_6, key = volume.is_mounted, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_6, key = volume.fstype, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_6, key = volume.mount_point, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_5
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_5, key = volume.mount_point, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_3
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_3, key = volume.mount_point, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_2
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_2, key = volume.mount_point, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_1, key = volume.mount_point, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24cc
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2448
Nov  5 17:55:07 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: PCI driver for 'wlan0' is 'bcmwl5.sys'Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: wlan0: Driver support level is unsupported
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_create_device_and_add_to_list(): adding device 'wlan0' (wireless)
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_8029
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ieee1394_host_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ieee1394_node_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ieee1394_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac44
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: PCI driver for 'eth0' is 'b44'
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: eth0: Driver support level is fully-supported
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_create_device_and_add_to_list(): adding device 'eth0' (wired)
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24cd
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.7
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_413c_58_0_-1_noserial
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_413c_58_0_-1_noserial_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.7_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24c7
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.2
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.2_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24c4
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.1_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24c2
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_0_0_206_-1_0000:00:1d.0_0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_3341
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4e50
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_3340
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac44, key = info.category, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac44, key = pcmcia_socket.number, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac44, key = info.capabilities, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_new_capability() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac44, capability = pcmcia_socket
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = info.category, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.media, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.arp_proto_hw_id, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.80211.mac_address, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.linux.ifindex, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.interface_up, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.address, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.interface, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = net.linux.sysfs_path, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = info.capabilities, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_new_capability() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, capability = net.80211
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, key = info.capabilities, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_new_capability() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320, capability = net
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = info.category, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.media, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.arp_proto_hw_id, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.80203.mac_address, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.linux.ifindex, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.80203.rate, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.80203.link, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.interface_up, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.address, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.interface, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = net.linux.sysfs_path, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = info.capabilities, is_removed = 0, is_added = 1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_new_capability() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, capability = net
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_property_modified() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, key = info.capabilities, is_removed = 0, is_added = 0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_new_capability() called with udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401, capability = net.80203
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: AUTO: Best wired device = eth0
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: AUTO: Best wireless device = (null)  (null)
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager:     SWITCH: best device changed
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_state_modification_monitor(): beginning activation for device 'eth0'
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost NetworkManager: nm_device_activation_worker (eth0) started...
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost dhclient: Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost dhclient: All rights reserved.
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost dhclient:
Nov  5 17:55:14 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Nov  5 17:55:15 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Nov  5 17:55:15 localhost dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:1f:0b:a4:27
Nov  5 17:55:15 localhost dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:0f:1f:0b:a4:27
Nov  5 17:55:15 localhost dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Nov  5 17:55:16 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Nov  5 17:55:16 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.5.255.254
Nov  5 17:55:16 localhost dhclient: bound to 10.5.251.247 -- renewal in 41000 seconds.
Nov  5 17:55:16 localhost NetworkManager: nm_device_activation_worker(eth0): device activated
Nov  5 17:55:16 localhost NetworkManager: nm_state_modification_monitor() activated device eth0