Bug 145750
| Summary: | HAL doesn't list info.capabilites for some (all?) PCMCIA network cards | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rodd Clarkson <rodd> | ||||
| Component: | hal | Assignee: | David Zeuthen <davidz> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | harald, mclasen | ||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 0.4.7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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| Last Closed: | 2005-01-25 04:21:42 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Rodd Clarkson
2005-01-21 02:15:13 UTC
Hi, yeah, this stopped working when the sysfs patch for PCMCIA cards was introduced somewhere in 2.6.10; it worked fine under 2.6.9. Please try the new packages here http://people.redhat.com/davidz/hal-cvs20050121/ that should fix the problem. Thanks, David This didn't work for me. Regarding you comment above that suggests this is a regression, this has never worked for me. This is not (AFAIK) a regression. At no time that I'm aware of has HAL reported these cards as having info.capabilites. Certainly not during the 2.6.9 kernels anyway. I'm still not seeing any info.capabilities for this card. I'll attach the output from pshal so that you can see what I'm getting. Created attachment 110104 [details]
output from 'lshal &> /tmp/lshal.output'
Oh, that should have been lshal, not pshal. Also, the card(s) in questions show up in the section for pci.vendor = 'RaLink' (string) to make it easier to find. As mentioned, it should have a info.capabilities entry that says it's a wireless network card. It seems that your card is _Cardbus_ (e.g. the kernel sees it as just another PCI device) and not a 16-bit PCMCIA card. Here's a short explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMCIA So, it seems that you are simply missing the driver. Hence, this is not a hal bug and it explains why it has never worked for you. It seems there is a driver you can use here http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/rt2500/ but the usual disclaimers apply (e.g. if it breaks anything, you get to keep both pieces). Since I've tested this myself on a Cisco 16-bit PCMCIA card using the airo driver, I'm going to close this bug when the fixed package is uploaded. David Okay. I was using the driver us mention at the time of filing this bug. I've since upgraded to the current beta release of the new driver. Neither driver sees the card being reported by HAL as having info.capabilities. If this is a driver issue, could you tell me what the driver is supposed to be doing so that HAL will know what the device can do. Some site or something that I can point the driver developers to that they could use as a reference. Reopening bug because the problem hasn't actually been resolved for me. Did I not make myself clear in comment 5? This is a _driver issue_, not a hal issue, so it makes little sense to reopen this bug. As to solving your problem, check that the directory /sys/class/net/eth0 contains two symlinks called device and driver (replace eth0 with the name of the device; /var/log/messages may be helpful here). If it doesn't go bug the driver authors; it's pretty easy to fix (just a SET_NETDEV_DEV macro IIRC). |