Re: rt2x00/rt2500 support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:40 +1200, Eion Robb wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Thanks for all your help :)  So far we've managed to find that the dscape  
> stack was lacking the SET_NETDEV_DEV() call in it.  It's there in the  
> rt2x00 dscape drivers and I'm guessing will move into the dscape stuff in  
> the kernel branch?
> So we've got the rt2x00 driver and devices to be detected by  
> NetworkManager... as wired network devices.  I've looked around but I'm  
> not sure how to change it to have the net.80211 capabilities.
> Can you point me in the right direction?

AFAIK, HAL looks at /proc/net/wireless, parses the interface names, and
uses that to determine whether or not the device is a wireless device.
Since it appears that /proc/net/wireless is eventually going away, HAL
may need to get changed to recognize the /sys/class/ieee80211 directory
that dscape presents, or something like that.

What does your /proc/net/wireless say when the card is plugged in and
the driver is loaded?

Dan

> --Eion
> 
> >
> > Ok; does it show up in HAL?  Run 'hal-device-manager' and look around
> > for your card.  There needs to also be a "WLAN Interface" object that's
> > a child of the actual PCI/USB card.  The "WLAN Interface" object needs
> > to have the "net.80211" capability in its info.capabilities list.  It
> > also needs to have a "net.interface" property.
> >
> > The driver is likely not showing up because it has no SET_NETDEV_DEV()
> > call when it sets up its netdevice, which means that the right device
> > links aren't set up in sysfs.  Each separate hardware-specific file
> > (rt2500pci.c, rt2400pci.c, rt2500usb.c) needs to have the
> > SET_NETDEV_DEV() command added.  Try the attached patch, and if that
> > works, please send it upstream to the rt2x00 maintainers.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> 
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