On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 15:59 -0700, Colin Brace wrote: > Hi all, > > First, I'd like to report that NM works really well with my mobile broadband > USB stick (a Huawei, from Vodafone). > > Second, I have Fedora 12 installed on an Asus Eee PC 1101HA, with the Ralink > RT3090 wireless chipset. > > A driver for this chipset isn't in the kernel yet, so I downloaded the > source from Ralink, compiled and installed it under kernel 2.6.32.9-70. It > loads on boot time, works fine from the command line (ifconfig ra0... > iwconfig... dhclient...). > > However, I can't get NM to see it.
This is usually because the driver you've got has bugs or isn't correctly implemented. Which is why we recommend drivers from the kernel since out-of-kernel drivers are known to have quality problems. One quick check here is to open up a terminal and "cd -P /sys/class/net/ra0" and then type "ls". Do you see a 'device' link in the returned list? It should look something like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-03-15 16:02 device -> ../../../0000:02:00.0 If not, the driver is buggy. Next, do "cd -P device" and do another "ls". You should see a 'driver' link there. It'll look something like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-03-15 12:32 driver -> ../../../../bus/pci/drivers/iwlagn Then "cd -P driver", and run "pwd". If you don't get something like "/sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwlagn" (of course you'll have the ralink driver name, not 'iwlagn') then the driver is also buggy. Dan > If I go RMB --> Edit connections, the device is listed under Wireless, with > the corresponding MAC address (NM knows it is there!). Yet it never gets > listed in the applet menu under Wireless Network. > > I've asked about this in various forums but haven't got a single lead. I am > hoping that someone here might have an idea. > > Thanks for all the great work. > > > ----- > Colin Brace > Amsterdam > http://lim.nl _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
