Re: GNOME fails to recognize WLAN interface

[PradeepGurumath <pradeepgurumath gmail com>]

Hi Dan,

Thanks a ton for the reply.
We have structured our driver in such a way that hald now identifies our
interface.

The answers for your questions
HAL version : -   hal-0.5.9.1
 
After the driver changes, here is what 'ls -al /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/'
lists.
# 
# ls -al /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/
 drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:01 .
drwxr-xr-x   45 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:01 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:01 bus ->
../../../bus/platform
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:01 driver ->
../../../bus/platform/drivers/SDIO_WLAN
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Jan  1 00:05 modalias
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:05 net:wlan0 ->
../../../class/net/wlan0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:05 power
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:01 subsystem ->
../../../bus/platform
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Jan  1 00:01 uevent

However, the 'lshal | grep net' does not show the mac address (shown as
00:00:00:00:00:00) unless we restart hald.
Is this really required to restart hald every time we make our interface up?

If not, can you please suggest how we can avoid restarting hald?

thanks again,
pradeep.


PradeepGurumath wrote:
> 
> 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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