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

[Dan Williams]

Hi,

Ok, the problem with the orinoco driver is that the stock Kernel drivers 
don't support wireless scanning, which is a big issue.  Also, all the 
orinoco cards I've tried (3 different brands) have problems associating to 
access points, they usually lock onto the strongest access point and 
refuse to let go even if you tell the card to associate with another, 
still-visible access point.  That's something in the firmware I'm fairly 
sure, since the drivers are a fairly thin layer over the hardware.

Dan

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Amitabha Roy wrote:

> It uses the orinoco driver.
> 
> Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> >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
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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