ports/104062: gkrellmwireless2 plugin fails to recognise ath0 wireless

[Lars Hecking]

>Number:         104062
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       gkrellmwireless2 plugin fails to recognise ath0 wireless
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 06 13:40:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lars Hecking
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD rustycage 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Thu Oct 5 22:33:22 IST 2006 root at rustycage:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RUSTY i386


>Description:

I have installed

gkrellm-2.2.9_1     A GTK based system monitor
gkrellmwireless-2.0.2_5 GKrellM wireless plugin

When enabling the wireless plugin in gkrellm2, it only shows stats for the
builtin wi0 interface, which is physically switched off. It does not show,
or even have a tab for, the plugged-in atheros based wireless PCMCIA card
I'm using. After adding ath0 manually to ~/.gkrellm2/user_config and restarting
gkrellm, the config entries for ath0 are now available, but gkrellm itself
still shows only wi0 stats (wi0 and ath0 are enabled in the configuration).

It looks like gkrellm2 fails to recognise the card as wireless - it
shows up under Builtins/Net just fine.

This works fine under Gentoo Linux on the same laptop (minor revs of the
software involved are different, e.g. 2.0.3 vs 2.0.2).

>How-To-Repeat:

Install gkrellm2 and gkrellmwireless2.
Enable wireless plugin.
Insert Atheros based wireless card into PCMCIA slot.
Watch how gkrellm2 does not show wireless stats for ath0.

>Fix:

No known workaround.


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