On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> This may not be where to look. I'm sort of guessing as I'm not blessed SB> with this hardware. It's like PCMCIA I take it, but not quite. It may be SB> more appropriate to just probe the modules like we do for mesh, bmac, etc. SB> What I'm looking for is some kind of clue that the device is present, even SB> before I try to probe, which may save me from locking up a machine SB> unecessarily. Does dmesg or /proc give any indication before the SB> module(s) are installed? SB> SB> With "normal" PCMCIA, the info corresponds with what cardctl reads: SB> SB> [root@powerbook pcmcia-cs-3.1.26]# cardctl ident SB> Socket 0: SB> product info: "Ethernet", "Adapter", "2.0" SB> manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab SB> function: 6 (network) SB> SB> SB> Any info you can provide would help.
/proc/net/wireless seems to exist even when the module is not loaded, but it is hard for me to say why and if that is consistent. root@localhost:/home/henrik> rmmod airport root@localhost:/home/henrik> rmmod orinoco root@localhost:/home/henrik> rmmod hermes root@localhost:/home/henrik> cat /proc/net/wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt misc root@localhost:/home/henrik> modprobe airport root@localhost:/home/henrik> cat /proc/net/wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt misc eth1: 0000 55. 214. 159. 0 0 0 root@localhost:/home/henrik> >From dmesg: hermes.c: 3 Oct 2001 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> orinoco.c 0.08a (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) airport.c 0.06f (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:0019 eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 7.25 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported. eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported. eth1: WEP supported, "128"-bit key. eth1: MAC address 00:30:65:52:11:24 eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: Allowed channels mask: 0x00001fff eth1: ready airport: card registered for interface eth1 -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
