RE: My wireless card activity could notberecognizedbyNetworkManager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 12:28 -0800, Jihua Cheng wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> I added the SET_NETDEV_DEV. Network Manager still does not detect my
> wireless card.
> 
> I noticed that when I right click mouse on NetworkManager icon, only
> Gray "Wired Network" showed up. I disconnect Ethernet connection. Should
> Network manager show "Wireless Network"? Could some parameter setting is
> not properly setup for NetworkManager?

This is really an issue between the driver and HAL.  If you get it to
show up in HAL, then it will show up in NetworkManager (and then we can
see if your driver does WEXT right :).  In any case, what version of HAL
do you have?  Then we can track down exactly how HAL is looking for
wireless.

Dan

> Thanks!
> 
> Jihua
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Williams [mailto:dcbw redhat com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:45 AM
> To: Jihua Cheng
> Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Subject: RE: My wireless card activity could
> notberecognizedbyNetworkManager
> 
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 11:25 -0800, Jihua Cheng wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Do this then, that is definitely required for 2.6 drivers.  It won't
> break hard if you don't have it, but you need it.  It makes a link
> between your hardware device and the class device in sysfs and allows
> HAL to determine the parent/child relationship.
> 
> Dan
> 
> > 
> > - 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
> > 
> > 
>