RE: My wireless card activity could not berecognizedbyNetworkManager

["Jihua Cheng" <jihuac marvell com>]

Dan,
Thanks a lot.

Please find the answer bellow.

- Do you call SET_NETDEV_DEV in your driver?
My driver does not call SET_NETDEV_DEV.

- Does it show up in /proc/net/wireless?
Yes. "cat /proc/net/wireless" shows
Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               |
Missed | WE
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc |
beacon | 20
  eth1: 0001    0     0   160        0      0 6128224     27     86
0

- 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)
"ls /sys/class/net/eth1" shows
address
addr_len
broadcast
carrier
dormant
features
flags
ifindex
iflink
link_mode
mtu
operstate
statistics
subsystem
tx_queue_len
type
uevent
weight
wireles


- What is the contents of /sys/class/net/ethX/wireless? (same as above,
replace ethX as appropriate)
"ls /sys/class/net/eth1/wireless " shows
beacon
crypt
fragment
level
link
misc
noise
nwid
retries
status

- 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.
get_wireless_stats is implemented.

Regards,

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Williams [mailto:dcbw redhat com] 
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:47 AM
To: Jihua Cheng
Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: RE: My wireless card activity could not
berecognizedbyNetworkManager

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