Re: nm can't recognize my devices anymore after 2.6.34 zen kernel

[Gary Trakhman <gary trakhman gmail com>]

yup:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 Jul 11 19:40 driver ->
../../../../bus/pci/drivers/ath5k

and
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 Jul 11 19:40 driver ->
../../../../bus/pci/drivers/r8169



On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar gmail com> wrote:
> On Monday 12 of July 2010 04:33:18 Gary Trakhman wrote:
>> Trying to hunt this down, nm can't figure out my devices, but I can
>> use them manually just fine.  What should I look for or what's wrong?
>> there are lots of files in /sys/class/net/...
>>
>>
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info>
>> NetworkManager (version 0.8.0.999) is starting...
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info> trying to
>> start the modem manager...
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info> Loaded
>> plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  To report bugs please
>> use the NetworkManager mailing list.
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info> found WiFi
>> radio killswitch rfkill0 (at /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0) (driver
>> <unknown>)
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info> WiFi
>> enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info> WWAN
>> enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info> WiMAX
>> enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <info> Networking
>> is enabled by state file
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <warn>
>> /sys/class/net/eth0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
>> Jul 11 19:48:20 gary-laptop NetworkManager[13622]: <warn>
>> /sys/class/net/wlan0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
>
> I would look under /sys/class/net/<interface>/device/ - it is expected
> to have driver symlink, like
>
> {pts/3}% ll /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-07-12 06:17
> /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver -> ../../../../bus/pci/drivers/tg3/
>