Re: Card not showing up

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:09 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:42:34AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > Network Manager is a bit verbose, so I'm not sure how much to post.
> > 
> > You actually snipped out the bits that matter :)
> > 
> > I'd like to see what happens when NM starts up or when the card is
> > inserted, which will print out something like this:
> 
> I'll try again when back at the machine later today.
> 
> I think what I posted was from when the card was inserted.  You can
> see the kernel messages about the card insert.  I trimmed later items
> (which IIRC was due to my active wireless network timing out).
> 
> 
> > 
> > Aug 12 15:05:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'e1000'. 
> > Aug 12 15:05:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'. 
> > 
> > Aug 12 15:05:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  eth1: Device is fully-supported using driver 'ipw2200'. 
> > Aug 12 15:05:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'eth1'. 
> 
> It never says that - which, I suppose, is why it's not showing up.
> Maybe because the card doesn't support WPA Supplicant?  Still would
> like to be able to use the card for WEP networks.
> 
> moseley tiger:~$ fgrep eth1 /var/log/syslog.0
> 
> fgrep eth1 /var/log/syslog.0
> Aug 13 21:50:57 tiger kernel: [  326.944000] airo(eth1): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0
> Aug 13 21:50:57 tiger kernel: [  326.944000] airo(eth1): Doing fast bap_reads
> Aug 13 21:50:57 tiger kernel: [  327.000000] airo(eth1): WPA unsupported (only firmware versions 5.30.17 and greater support WPA.  Detected 4.25.30)
> Aug 13 21:50:57 tiger kernel: [  327.000000] airo(eth1): MAC enabled 0:9:7c:ae:5d:b0
> Aug 13 21:50:57 tiger kernel: [  327.000000] eth1: index 0x05: , Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0xa100-0xa13f
> Aug 13 21:50:59 tiger avahi-daemon[5231]: Registering new address record for fe80::209:7cff:feae:5db0 on eth1.*.
> Aug 13 21:51:08 tiger kernel: [  337.728000] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
> Aug 13 22:00:13 tiger kernel: [  876.348000] airo(eth1): cmd:2 status:ffff rsp0:ffff rsp1:ffff rsp2:ffff
> Aug 13 22:00:13 tiger avahi-daemon[5231]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::209:7cff:feae:5db0 on eth1.
> Aug 13 22:00:13 tiger kernel: [  876.364000] airo(eth1): cmd:21 status:ffff rsp0:ffff rsp1:ffff rsp2:ffff
> Aug 13 22:00:13 tiger kernel: [  876.380000] airo(eth1): cmd:21 status:ffff rsp0:ffff rsp1:ffff rsp2:ffff
> Aug 13 22:00:13 tiger NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(7994): RTM_DELLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'eth1' removed 
> Aug 13 22:00:13 tiger kernel: [  876.412000] airo(eth1): cmd:21 status:ffff rsp0:ffff rsp1:ffff rsp2:ffff

This looks like an airo issue, the card is simply not responding to
commands.  Can you grab another airo card (pcmcia or minipci) and try
with that?  What kernel version?  I've got both Airo variants and
haven't had problems recently, but I haven't tested in the past few
months.

You _really_ want to update your Airo firmware to something 5.30.17 or
greater too, firmware that old is actually bad news.  Unfortunately,
that requires popping the card in a Windows box.

Dan

> 
> > Try just running /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon after stopping the
> > one that's currently running.
> 
> I can try that later today when I'm back on the laptop.
> 
> Thanks:
>