Re: nm-applet lists ath_pci as wired but NetworkAdministration Tool lists it as wireless

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:04 +0000, Lars Oliver Hansen wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> with kernel 2.6.27-rc5 nm-applet 0.6.6 from Ubuntu 8.04 lists my
> Atheros wireless chip as a wired network when the MadWifi ath_pci
> driver is loaded. Connecting with it is unsuccesfull. Network
> Administration Tool from Ubuntu 8.04 from Carlos Garnacho Parro who
> has a gnome e-mail adress lists it as wireless though and shows the
> available access points and their signal strengths. What does Network
> Administration Tool do different from nm-applet?

Grab the output of 'lshal'.  Look through that output for the interface
name of your device.  Does the interface have the "net.80211"
capability?  Here's the output for an ipw2200 for reference:


udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_16_6f_xx_xx_xx'
  info.capabilities = {'net', 'net.80211'} (string list)
  info.category = 'net.80211'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'  (string)
  info.product = 'WLAN Interface'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'net'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_16_6f_xx_xx_xx'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'net'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0/net/eth2'  (string)
  net.80211.mac_address = 96355641140  (0x166f3e6734)  (uint64)
  net.address = '00:16:6f:xx:xx:xx'  (string)
  net.arp_proto_hw_id = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  net.interface = 'eth2'  (string)
  net.linux.ifindex = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  net.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'  (string)
  net.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'  (string)

If HAL doesn't know that the device is a wifi device (by the "net.80211"
capability), then NM won't know about it either, and the driver is
busted and needs to be fixed, or there's a bug in HAL.

Dan

> With Ubuntu 8.04s generic kernel 2.6.24-19 nm-applet lists the Atheros
> wireless chip as wireless with the same driver.
> So this seems to be a kernel 2.6.27-rc5 and NetworkManager issue.
> Can you help here to get NetworkManager working or can you suggest how
> to disable it and take the same route Network Administration Tool
> seems to take to be able to access the Atheros chip as a wireless
> device with the rc5 kernel?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Lars
> 
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