[ARMedslack] rc.wireless problem

[John O'Donnell]

On 03/19/2011 09:53 PM, Davide wrote:
> Well it appears that the sys tree may be missing /sys/class/net/${1}/wireless (at least with kirkwood current kernel).
> Most people would not notice this issue untill you try to get a wireless NIC to be correctly configures right after you plug it in.
> Not sure if this is an architecture port issue, a kernel issue or a dockstar specific issue but I changed that function towork around the problem:

All I can report is that on a GuruPlug with the built in wireless (running as an 
access point), I have neither the /sys/class/net/wireless directory nor does it 
show up with your check using iwconfig

root at guruslack:/sys/class/net# l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 22 15:48 eth0 -> 
../../devices/platform/mv643xx_eth_port.0/net/eth0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 22 15:48 eth1 -> 
../../devices/platform/mv643xx_eth_port.1/net/eth1/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 22 15:48 eth2 -> 
../../devices/platform/orion-ehci.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/net/eth2/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 22 15:48 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 22 15:48 uap0 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/uap0/
root at guruslack:/sys/class/net# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      no wireless extensions.

uap0      no wireless extensions.

root at guruslack:/sys/class/net#

uap0 is the wireless device.

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