Re: Belkin card on Ubuntu showing up as "wired network"

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 22:26 -0400, Jordan Eisenberg wrote:
> I have a Belkin wireless PCMCIA card, model #F5D7010, and a recent
> install of Ubuntu 6.10.  The wireless card is functional and "iwlist
> wlan0 scanning" reveals a list of available networks, but for some
> reason, in the network-manager drop-down list this card is listed as:
> 
> Wired Network (RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI)
> 
> A list of wireless networks is not available here: the only options
> are this and my ethernet port.  Selecting this option never actually
> connects to anything, and even if it did I would have no idea how to
> use it on our WPA-protected home network.  Can anyone enlighten me as
> to whether I'm doing something wrong?  Thank you!

The driver is probably busted.  Can you send the output of
"lshal" (scrub it for MAC addresses if you like), "ls
-al /proc/net/wireless", and "tree /sys/class/net" ?

Basically, if HAL doesn't detect the card as a wireless card,
NetworkManager won't see it as a wireless card.  To do this, I believe
that HAL has previously used /proc/net/wireless.  If the driver doesn't
implement the get_wireless_stats() handler, it won't show up
in /proc/net/wireless, and therefore it won't be seen by HAL.

Dan