Bug#237894: installation-reports: partman doesn't start and wifi isn't automatically detected on powerbook
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:08:19PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > I'm having trouble finding the correct PCI ID in this list. Here's what
> > I think everything is so far. If someone could please shed some light on
> > what I've got wrong, it'd be much appreciated.
> It's not absolutely clear to me on which bs this card is. But I can tell you
> that it is not on PCI and it is probably somehow related to PCMCIA but it
> does not need the yenta_socket module (which is otherwise needed for the
> PCMCIA socket on the powerbook). I suspect the necessary logic to access the
> card is directly built into the kernel module.
> I think we cannot detect this card with discover and should try to load the
> module if it is present like we do for other modules in hw-detect.sh.
> Ben, is there a better way to detect the airport card?
The "old" airport card (not airport extreme) isn't easily probed.
You can use /proc/device-tree looking for a "radio" node in there,
or you can use sysfs in 2.6 looking for that node on the macio bus
Ben.
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