Re: ndiswrapper and NetworkManager, and sysfs/HAL

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

Robert,

Should be fixed now, forgot to switch the default to FULLY_SUPPORTED for 
wireless drivers.

Dan

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Robert Paskowitz wrote:

> I've finally got around to trying NM again, trying to finish off static
> support for gentoo. Got a small problem with my wireless card:
> 
> NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi
> = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net-00:02:2d:b5:b4:30
> libhal.c 990 : Error sending msg: No property pci.vendor_id on device
> with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net-00:02:2d:b5:b4:30
> libhal.c 990 : Error sending msg: No property pci.product_id on device
> with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net-00:02:2d:b5:b4:30
> NetworkManager: eth1: Driver support level is unsupported
> NetworkManager: nm_create_device_and_add_to_list(): adding device
> 'eth1' (wireless)
> NetworkManager: nm_hal_device_added() called with udi
> = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net-00:02:2d:b5:b4:30-0
> NetworkManager: AUTO: Best wired device = eth0
> NetworkManager: AUTO: Best wireless device = (null)  (null)
> 
> 
> Should the recent change from whitelist to blacklist solve this problem?
> The libhal.c errors looks like it's from the recent (0.4.1) hal I
> installed.
> 
> For reference, this is a Dell Trumobile 1150, which uses an orinoco
> chipset:
> 
> orinoco 0.15rc1HEAD (David Gibson <hermes gibson dropbear id au>, Pavel
> Roskin <proski gnu org>, et al)
> orinoco_cs 0.15rc1HEAD (David Gibson <hermes gibson dropbear id au>,
> Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>, et al)
> eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.10
> 
> Robert
> 
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 22:19 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Joe Barnett wrote:
> > > yeah, i looked at it a little more, and after adding bcmwl5.sys to the
> > > fully supported list, the NMApplet shows up :)
> > 
> > I just converted the whitelist to a blacklist and committed that change to 
> > CVS.  So ndiswrapper shouldn't have any more issues as long as your patch 
> > is applied to it.
> > 
> > Dan
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