On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 00:35 +0100, Tom Parker wrote: > I've managed to figure out how to fix my problems, and it may also help > some of the other people with issues re: net.80203.link. HAL appears to > have undergone some considerable changes (e.g. what looks like the start > of a complete rewrite of the linux 2.6 backend) in current CVS HEAD vs. > the 0.4-stable branch.
That's right; woow, you shouldn't be using HAL CVS HEAD, it's not really ready for prime time yet :-) > I've just compiled the latest CVS, tested it > briefly, and suddenly I have accurate info for my network card and my > remaining bug has dissappeared. For the interested, I've created Debian > packages of the current HAL CVS, and they're available at > http://tevp.net/debian/. Note that I've basically just copied+pasted the > existing debian packaging files from the 0.4.7-1 package, with only > adding this CVS version to the changelog. This currently WFM, but YMMV. > > Hopefully these packages, or at least this information, is of use to > others having problems. > NM will require some very slight patching to work with HAL CVS; notably it will have to use net.physical_device to get the hal device object with the physical properties such as name etc.; I plan to send a patch for that when I start doing unstable 0.5.x releases (in a few weeks). There's also the D-BUS API change to consider but that's another thing I'll have to sort out with Dan and John P (for Fedora, that is). David _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
