On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 13:38 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello John, hello Johannes, > > first, many thanks for this great mac80211_hwsim module! I am > currently working on automatic test cases for the Linux network stack > (wpa_supplicant, dhclient, NetworkManager, etc.), and this is of great > help. > > One issue is that NetworkManager does not get along with these > simulated interfaces: > > NetworkManager[24027]: <warn> /sys/devices/virtual/mac80211_hwsim/hwsim0/net/wlan1: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring... > > It calls udev_device_get_driver() on the net device (wlan0) (and > failing that, on its parent), but that fails because hwsim doesn't > have a driver attribute. My real intel wifi does: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 3 06:19 /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver -> ../../../../bus/pci/drivers/iwlwifi > > But /sys/class/net/wlan1/device/ only has the default "uevent" and > subsystem link. > > Other drivers call something like pci_register_driver() or > usb_register(), I figure those will register the driver symlink in > sysfs? But admittedly I'm a kernel n00b, so I'd appreciate a hint > where to look for. > > Thank you in advance! > > Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
