ORBIT-USER: Where's the WiFi device on sb2?

Einar Vollset einar at cs.cornell.edu
Tue Jul 25 17:11:48 EDT 2006


Oh, and where's the FAQ gone?

http://www.orbit-lab.org/wiki/FAQ

shows a blank page for me..

On Jul 25, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Einar Vollset wrote:

>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to wrestle nodehandler to run my code and was  
> making progress when I noticed that
> my experiments were a little too successful; my code was picking  
> the 1Gbps wired network device
> instead of the wireless one :-)
>
> However, I appear unable to actually locate the device interface  
> for the wireless card; I simply run
> `nodehandler -t -k` - which should create me a device ath0, but  
> when I ssh into the node after the
> simulation I only see the two wired interfaces:
>
> node1-1:~# iwconfig
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1      no wireless extensions.
>
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> It also doesn't like my suggestion to manually ifconfig the ath0  
> device:
>
> node1-1:~# ifconfig ath0 up
> ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> node1-1:~#
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Einar




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