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

[Amitabha Roy]

It uses the orinoco driver.




Dan Williams wrote:

>What driver does your card use?
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>Dan
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>On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:45 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
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>>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).
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>>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
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>>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
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>>Dan Williams wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:21 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
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>>>>When I run NetworkManagerInfo I get:
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>>>>[rodd at clownfish tmp]$ NetworkManagerInfo
>>>>[rodd at clownfish tmp]$ nmwa_dbus_get_string(): org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.NoActiveDevice raised:
>>>>There is no currently active device.
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>>>Can you get the output of:
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>>>lshal | grep ra0
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>>>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.
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>>>Dan
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