PCMCIA wireless interface is missing in HAL

Andrey Borzenkov arvidjaar at mail.ru
Sun Jan 1 11:00:08 PST 2006


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I just realized that interface for wireless is not listed in HAL; the PCMCIA 
card is.

{pts/2}% iwconfig eth1
eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"ADSL_Wireless"  Nickname:"Linux"
          Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:60:B3:CA:91:B0   Bit 
Rate=11.5343 Mb/s
          Tx-Power=off   Sensitivity:1/3
          RTS thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=18/92  Signal level=-84 dBm  Noise level=-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:14  Invalid misc:1059   Missed beacon:0

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pcmcia_342_2'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pcmcia_342_2'  (string)
  linux.subsystem = 'pcmcia'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  info.product = 'Wireless LAN Card'  (string)
  info.vendor = 'TOSHIBA'  (string)
  pcmcia.manfid2 = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  pcmcia.manfid1 = 342  (0x156)  (int)
  pcmcia.function = 'network'  (string)
  pcmcia.productid_4 = ''  (string)
  pcmcia.productid_3 = 'Version 01.01'  (string)
  pcmcia.productid_2 = 'Wireless LAN Card'  (string)
  pcmcia.productid_1 = 'TOSHIBA'  (string)
  pcmcia.socket_number = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  info.linux.driver = 'wlags49'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac50'  (string)
  info.bus = 'pcmcia'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = 
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/0.0'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/0.0'  (string)

{pts/2}% sudo pccardctl status
Socket 0:
  3.3V 16-bit PC Card
  Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "wlags49"
Socket 1:
  no card
Socket 2:
  no card

but 

{pts/2}% lshal | grep eth1
{pts/2}%

2.6.14.5, HAL 0.5.5.1, pcmciautils 0.12, Mandriva cooker (kernel from 
kernel.org)

- -andrey
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