Re: nm madwifi and wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:13 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> Based on this post by Dan Williams:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-May/msg00230.html
> The workaround for madwifi was removed from the FC5 packages.  You
> should look into upgrading your Madwifi driver to a version that
> supports the latest WEXT or compiling NM by hand and adding back the
> patch. 

I think I left it in the FC5 packages though...  I only ripped it out
from the Rawhide ones.

Tom: can you give the output of "/usr/bin/nm-tool" and also the output
of 'lshal' for the chunks that apply to your Atheros card?  For example,
do "lshal | less" and then search it for "ath0" or whatever, and copy
that chunk.  Mine looks like:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx'  (string)
  linux.subsystem = 'net'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  net.80211.mac_address = 55586348776  (0xcf1345ee8)  (uint64)
  info.product = 'WLAN Interface'  (string)
  net.interface_up = false  (bool)
  net.arp_proto_hw_id = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  net.linux.ifindex = 3  (0x3)  (int)
  net.address = '00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'  (string)
  net.interface = 'eth1'  (string)
  net.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_1043'  (string)
  info.capabilities = {'net', 'net.80211'} (string list)
  info.category = 'net.80211'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_1043'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/net/eth1'  (string)

Dan

> On 5/29/06, Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I have an FC5 laptop with a Proxim wireless card. I installed
>         the madwifi
>         0.9.0 drivers with wpa_supplicant version
>         wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5.
>         
>         My access point is using wpa encryption. If I configure
>         wpa_supplicant 
>         manually everything works OK. The problem is that nm does not
>         see the wireless
>         card at all. As a result if I am on a wired network and try to
>         switch to
>         wireless things do not get setup properly. Routes etc. need to
>         be added by hand 
>         or I need to reboot. As I am typing this I am on wireless but
>         the nm icon says
>         the network is disconnected.
>         
>         (bullwinkle pts14) $ rpm -qa | grep -i networkmanager
>         NetworkManager-glib-0.6.2-2.fc5
>         NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.2-2.fc5 
>         NetworkManager-0.6.2-2.fc5
>         (bullwinkle pts14) $
>         
>         03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.
>         AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>                 Subsystem: PROXIM Inc Unknown device 0a40
>                 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV-
>         VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- 
>                 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
>         DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>                 Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size
>         20
>                 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 
>                 Region 0: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit,
>         non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>                 Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>                         Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA
>         PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) 
>                         Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
>         
>         What do I need to do to get nm to see my wireless card?
>         
>         Regards,
>         
>         Tom Diehl               tdiehl rogueind com
>         Spamtrap address mtd123 rogueind com
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