GNOME fails to recognize WLAN interface

[PradeepGurumath <pradeepgurumath gmail com>]

Hi all,

We are trying to interface our WLAN driver with GNOME on an OMAP board.

Description of problem:
The WLAN driver works without problem when we run it from the command line
interface.
Even IFCONFIG command confirms that WLAN interface is alive and kicking
(WLAN gets listed along with eth0 and LO interface).

However, GNOME-Networkmanager doesn't recognize WLAN interface and thus
doesn't show a list of available wireless networks to choose from.
But, eth0 interface gets listed by the GNOME-NetworkManager.

Here are a few of the checks that we have done

Here is the result of "lshal | grep net"
    udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_08_00_28_01_24_6d'
      info.capabilities = {'net', 'net.80203'} (string list)
      info.category = 'net.80203'  (string)
      info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_08_00_28_01_24_6d' 
(string)
      linux.subsystem = 'net'  (string)
      linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/net/eth0'  (string)
      net.80203.mac_address = 8796764185709  (0x8002801246d)  (uint64)
      net.address = '08:00:28:01:24:6d'  (string)
      net.arp_proto_hw_id = 1  (0x1)  (int)
      net.interface = 'eth0'  (string)
      net.linux.ifindex = 2  (0x2)  (int)
      net.originating_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_smc91x'  (string)
      net.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_smc91x' 
(string

This implies that HAL does not recognize our WLAN interface.

And, here is what "/sys/class/net# tree" has to say,
/sys/class/net
   .
   |-eth0
   |---power
   |---statistics
   |-irda0
   |---power
   |---statistics
   |-lo
   |---power
   |---statistics
   |-tiwlan0
   |---power
   |---statistics
   |---wireless

Our questions,
1. Are we missing something in the WLAN driver (e.g. entry in some device
related structure etc.) or the problem lies somewhere else?
2. Are there any configurations that are needed to make HAL aware of WLAN
interface?

Can somebody kindly throw some light on the missing link here?

thanks,
pradeep.

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