Dan Williams wrote:
No, it asks HAL what the device type is actually. HAL looks for the
interface in /proc/net/wireless currently, and if it's not there, says
the device is wired. Run 'lshal', look for your wlan device, and see if
info.capabilities includes 'net.80211'.
Yeah, I noticed it wasn't in /proc/net/wireless. Should've tipped me off
I guess. And I probably also should've thought that nm would ask HAL.
Looks like I wasn't really on track when I wrote this yesterday ;)
So if the wlanX interface isn't in /proc/net/wireless, you lose. I
think we discussed this in the private rt2x00 thread about a month ago?
Some patches came out of that one, specifically the SET_NETDEV_DEV ones
for rt2x00 and d80211. The problem with d80211 was that it didn't
implement the get_wireless_stats() handler function, and that function
(I think?) is the one that lets the wlanX device show up
in /proc/net/wireless.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Larry, do you remember/know more about
this? I think you were working in this area?
johannes
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