NetworkManagerInfo not finding rt2400 Wireless PCMCIA card (which is active)

[Dan Williams]

What driver does your card use?

Dan

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:45 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> I have the exactly same error when I start NetworkManager info.  I have 
> set the eth1 (wireless) device to start up on boot and
> the network comes up fine. However, I dont get the wireless applet in 
> the notification area (where its supposed to come after 
> NetworkManagerInfo is
> run).  If I set ONBOOT=no,  then no network comes up (and I get the same 
> error).
> 
> cardctl gives:
> PRODID_1="TOSHIBA"
> PRODID_2="Wireless LAN Card"
> PRODID_3="Version 01.01"
> PRODID_4=""
> MANFID=0156,0002
> FUNCID=6
> PRODID_1=""
> PRODID_2=""
> PRODID_3=""
> PRODID_4=""
> MANFID=0000,0000
> FUNCID=255
> 
> I have a suspicion that HAL is not detecting it (the only net.interface 
> property is set on my unused eth0)
> Any ideas on how to correct this ?
> 
> Amitabha
> 
> 
> Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:21 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>When I run NetworkManagerInfo I get:
> >>
> >>[rodd at clownfish tmp]$ NetworkManagerInfo
> >>[rodd at clownfish tmp]$ nmwa_dbus_get_string(): org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.NoActiveDevice raised:
> >> There is no currently active device.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Can you get the output of:
> >
> >lshal | grep ra0
> >
> >and paste it here?  NetworkManager doesn't know about cards that hal
> >doesn't know about, and NetworkManager will only use cards that hal sets
> >the "net.interface" property on.  So if hal doesn't know about your
> >card, NM won't know about it either.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >  
> >
>