Here you go. On Mon, 29 May 2006, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:13 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > > Based on this post by Dan Williams: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-May/msg00230.html > > The workaround for madwifi was removed from the FC5 packages. You > > should look into upgrading your Madwifi driver to a version that > > supports the latest WEXT or compiling NM by hand and adding back the > > patch. > > I think I left it in the FC5 packages though... I only ripped it out > from the Rawhide ones. > > Tom: can you give the output of "/usr/bin/nm-tool" and also the output > of 'lshal' for the chunks that apply to your Atheros card? For example, > do "lshal | less" and then search it for "ath0" or whatever, and copy > that chunk. Mine looks like: (bullwinkle pts10) # /usr/bin/nm-tool NetworkManager Tool State: disconnected - Device: eth0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM Path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth0 Type: Wired Driver: 3c59x Active: no HW Address: 00:08:74:E4:AA:B0 Capabilities: Supported: yes Carrier Detect: yes Speed: 10 Mb/s Wired Settings Hardware Link: no lshal udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_20_a6_52_1e_f9_0' info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_20_a6_52_1e_f9_0' (string) linux.subsystem = 'net' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int) net.80211.mac_address = 140229353209 (0x20a6521ef9) (uint64) info.product = 'WLAN Interface' (string) net.interface_up = true (bool) net.arp_proto_hw_id = 1 (0x1) (int) net.linux.ifindex = 7 (0x7) (int) net.address = '00:20:a6:52:1e:f9' (string) net.interface = 'ath0' (string) net.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_13' (string) info.capabilities = {'net', 'net.80211'} (string list) info.category = 'net.80211' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_13' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/net/ath0' (string) > > On 5/29/06, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an FC5 laptop with a Proxim wireless card. I installed > > the madwifi > > 0.9.0 drivers with wpa_supplicant version > > wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5. > > > > My access point is using wpa encryption. If I configure > > wpa_supplicant > > manually everything works OK. The problem is that nm does not > > see the wireless > > card at all. As a result if I am on a wired network and try to > > switch to > > wireless things do not get setup properly. Routes etc. need to > > be added by hand > > or I need to reboot. As I am typing this I am on wireless but > > the nm icon says > > the network is disconnected. > > > > (bullwinkle pts14) $ rpm -qa | grep -i networkmanager > > NetworkManager-glib-0.6.2-2.fc5 > > NetworkManager-gnome-0.6.2-2.fc5 > > NetworkManager-0.6.2-2.fc5 > > (bullwinkle pts14) $ > > > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. > > AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) > > Subsystem: PROXIM Inc Unknown device 0a40 > > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- > > VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- > > DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > > Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size > > 20 > > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 > > Region 0: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, > > non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA > > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- > > > > What do I need to do to get nm to see my wireless card? Thanks for the quick response. Regards, Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spamtrap address [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
