Re: Weird wireless phantom device
- From: Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk>
- To: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
- Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Weird wireless phantom device
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:54:18 +0100
Dan
I think your call on VBox was the right one. I was running the latest 3.0.6, but I'd already been thinking of reverting to 2.2 because it's actually quicker and I don't need the new bits in 3.0.
So now having installed 2.2 again, there's no problems with the WiFi device. Bizarre bug, I'd never have made that connection.
Thanks, Rick
--On Thursday, October 01, 2009 14:13:14 -0700 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:31 +0100, Rick Jones wrote:
> > I'm getting a repeated problem of my WiFi device showing up twice in
> > NM. This isn't really an NM problem, but I'm hoping someone here will
> > have an idea how to fix it.
>
> NM 0.8? Or NM 0.7?
>
> For 0.7, run 'lshal' and look for device blocks with 'wlan0' in them.
> If you see two, then it's a hal problem (though we've seen cases where
> VirtualBox in it's misguided attempts to virtualize /sys completely
> screws over HAL).
>
> For 0.8, what do you have in /sys/class/net/ ?
>
> Dan
>
> > The device appears twice in DBus, which is obviously the source of the
> > problem, as NM is just listing what it finds. Both entries in DBus are
> > identical, and point to the same device (which messes up NM as it
> > tries to open and connect on the same device twice).
> >
> > The DBus node names are almost identical, the second entry just has an
> > extra _0 at the end.
> >
> > The output of lspci shows only one device:
> >
> > 01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860
> > Subsystem: RaLink Device 2790
> > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
> > Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
> > Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> > Queue=0/5 Enable-
> > Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> > Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
> > Kernel driver in use: rt2860
> > Kernel modules: rt2860sta
> >
> > Running "lsmod | grep 2860" shows only one user:
> >
> > rt2860sta 513240 1
> >
> > Whether one or two devices show up is set from boot, and it seems
> > random when I re-boot what I'm going to get.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> > TIA Rick
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