PCMCIA network adapter not displayed in Device Manager Devices tree

[Thomas Hood]

In Debian sarge, HAL's "Devices" tree includes a part that looks like this:

PCI1450
PCI1450
  Unknown Device

When I click on "Unknown Device" I see this information in the right panel:

                        Vendor: Unknown
                        Device: Unknown
                        Status: Status
                      Bus type: PCMCIA
                   Device type: net.80211
                  Capabilities: net.80211 net

This is information about my PCMCIA network adapter.

On Hoary, the "Unknown Device" does not appear in the list.

As a result, applications that consult HAL to find out about network
devices don't work for me on Hoary.

[j^ (j)]

same here, any fix in sight? has someone tracked down the source of the problem?
kernel, pcmcia-cs, hal, something else?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can you guys please try hal 0.5.1, once it shows up in the archive?

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

The problem has not been fixed after installing the following packages.

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
ii hal 0.5.2-0ubuntu2 Hardware Abstraction
Layer
ii libc6 2.3.5-0ubuntu3 GNU C Library:
Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii libdbus-1-1 0.33-0ubuntu1 simple interprocess
messaging system
ii libdbus-glib-1-1 0.33-0ubuntu1 simple interprocess
messaging system (GLib-based shared library)
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of
C routines
ii libhal1 0.5.2-0ubuntu2 Hardware Abstraction
Layer - shared library
ii udev 0.056-2ubuntu2 /dev/ management daemon
ii dbus 0.33-0ubuntu1 simple interprocess
messaging system

I still see only

    PCI1450
    PCI1450

without anything listed under either of these, in contrast with Debian sarge.

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

I checked today and found that this bug has been fixed. In HAL's "Devices" list
I now see

PCI1450
PCI1450
  Unknown Device
    Networking Interface

Selecting the "Unknown Device" causes this information to be displayed in the
adjacent window under the "Device" tab:

Vendor: Unknown
Device: Unknown
Status: Status
Bus type: PCMCIA
Device Type: Unknown
Capabilities: Unknown

Selecting the "Networking Interface" causes this information to be displayed in
the adjacent window under the "Device" tab:

Vendor: Unknown
Device: Unknown
Status: Status
Bus type: Unknown
Device Type: net.80211
Capabilities: ['net', 'net.80211']

Thus HAL is aware now that I have a Cisco Aironet 352 PCMCIA card installed.

$ dpkg -l hal libc6 libdbus-1-1 libdbus-glib-1-1 libglib2.0-0 libhal1 udev dbus
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii dbus 0.34-1ubuntu3 simple interprocess messaging
system
ii hal 0.5.2-0ubuntu5 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii libc6 2.3.5-1ubuntu7 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries and Timezone data
ii libdbus-1-1 0.34-1ubuntu3 simple interprocess messaging
system
ii libdbus-glib-1-1 0.34-1ubuntu3 simple interprocess messaging
system (GLib-based shared libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.7.0a-0ubuntu2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal1 0.5.2-0ubuntu5 Hardware Abstraction Layer -
shared library
ii udev 0.056-2ubuntu2 /dev/ management daemon

This report can be closed.

I noticed one more nit, though. The word 'type' is capitalized after 'Device'
and not capitalized after 'Bus'.

--
Thomas Hood

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks for testing and verifying, closing now.