On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:46:18 -0800 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > actually, i have no personal stake in the fix as after i got it to work > > i learned that the new release is not compatible with my older > > distro-provided user-land (doesn't recognize it as wireless), > > Old userspace should not bust. If you find what the issue was let us > know. AFAICT old userspace tend to look for 3 possible things to see > if a device is a wireless device. > > 1) Wireless-tools requires SIOCGIWRANGE > 2) Network manager requires SIOCGIWNAME > 3) Linux hald < 0.5.12 used to use check the existance of > /sys/class/net/<interface>/wireless/ > > The only one I can think of your userspace might have an issue with is > the last one but even then you should get this if you have > CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y on 2.6.27.41 the primary differences between compat-wireless 2.6.30 & 2.6.32.2 ath5k on 2.6.27.42 (by observation of the resulting environment) is the older version creates a corresponding wmaster0 interface and the wlan0 sysfs entry has a wireless directory (ie /sys/class/net/wlan0/wireless). hal is version 0.5.11rc2 (from "hald --version") and indeed does not recognize wlan0 as 802.11, but instead 802.03 (from "hal-device"). without digging into the hal source (though i guess i could simply strace it and see if it tests for the wireless subdirectory), it appears your idea was correct, but i have CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y. from my 2.6.27.42 .config (which i compiled & ran both compat-wireless versions against): # # Wireless # CONFIG_CFG80211=m CONFIG_NL80211=y CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y CONFIG_MAC80211=m if you have any other ideas, patches, etc, then i'll try them. or tell me that hal < 0.5.12 is unsupported and i'll stick with compat-wireless-2.6.30. for the record: wireless-tools (iwconfig) recognizes wlan0 as "IEEE 802.11bg" with both compat-wireless versions and NetworkManager only used SIOC[SG]IW* ioctl requests (eg ESSID, MODE) with the older version (as seen by strace), so i figure hal reported wlan0 as 802.03 and NetworkManager believed it (never trying wireless ioctl requests). thanks for your work (going all the way back to prism54)! corey -- undefined@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
