RE: My wireless card activity could not be recognizedbyNetworkManager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:26 -0800, Jihua Cheng wrote:
> Dan,
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> The card model is SD wireless card, attached into PCI card. PCI card
> provides the bridge.
> 
> I wrote this driver. I can insmod my driver and it works well with
> wireless tools(iwconfig, iwlist, etc) and network command ( for example,
> ping). I could find my driver loaded properly, by using lsmod.
> 
> You mentioned "HAL doesn't appear to know about any wireless
> interfaces". How can I make HAL know my wireless interface? Some system
> function call?

Make sure it does the right thing with sysfs.

- Do you call SET_NETDEV_DEV in your driver?

- Does it show up in /proc/net/wireless?

- What is the contents of /sys/class/net/ethX ? (where ethX should be
replaced with the interface name of the wireless device that is created
when you load your driver)

- What is the contents of /sys/class/net/ethX/wireless? (same as above,
replace ethX as appropriate)

- Do you implement the get_wireless_stats function in your
iw_handler_def structure?  That's what actually allows the system to
create the /sys/class/net/ethX/wireless directory for you.

Dan