Re: NetworkManager CVS on Debian, PCMCIA cards

[Johan Bilien <jobi via ecp fr>]

Le mardi 21 décembre 2004 à 08:24 -0500, Dan Williams a écrit :
> > I'm trying to get NetworkManager (CVS) to see my PCMCIA PRISM2 card on Debian
> > unstable. I'm using linux-2.6.10-rc3-mm1, and the card appears correctly
> > in sysfs when plugged in (/sys/class/net/wlan0). However it is not
> > listed by HAL, and thus isn't seen by NetworkManager. Am I missing
> > something? HAL version is 0.4.2.
> 
> Well, if its not seen by HAL, then NetworkManager won't see of course...
> You might ask on the HAL lists?  hal freedesktop org
> 
> Other than that, what is the output of the following commands?
> 
> 1) cat /var/state/pcmcia/stab
> 2) cardctl info
> 3) ls -al /sys/class/net/wlan0
> 
> That should give us a better idea of the state of the card.  What driver
> is it using?

Sorry for the late answer, I've been offline for a while.

I tried both orinoco and hostap. 

% cat /var/lib/pcmcia/stab
Socket 0: D-Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card
0       network hostap_cs       0       wlan0
Socket 1: empty

% /sbin/cardctl info
PRODID_1="D"
PRODID_2="Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card"
PRODID_3="Version 01.02"
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0156,0002
FUNCID=6
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255

% ls -al /sys/class/net/wlan0
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    0 2005-01-11 10:04 ./
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root    0 2005-01-11 10:04 ../
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 address
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 addr_len
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 broadcast
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 carrier
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 features
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 flags
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 ifindex
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 iflink
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 mtu
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 2005-01-11 10:04 statistics/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 tx_queue_len
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2005-01-11 10:40 type

Thanks,
Johan.