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

[Pandurang Kamat]

ummm.. image is just what's on the disk and driver is loaded unloaded 
from memory.

You probably already knew this but typed your question faster than the 
speed of thought :-)
And the faq is back (thanks for pointing out), an accidental deletion of 
'}}}' had messed up the wiki rendering.

-Pandurang

Einar Vollset wrote:
> 
> Ah. Magic.. :-) Thanks!
> 
> Out of interest, if I load the driver like this and then save the image, 
> will the driver be there when
> I re-image the nodes? If so, and I then ran an experiment, would the 
> nodehandler (rudely IMHO)
> unload it again?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Einar
> 
> On Jul 25, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Sachin Ganu wrote:
> 
>> Einar,
>>
>> You will need to load the driver using "modprobe ath_pci" prior to
>> bringing the interface ath0 up. The nodehandler does this
>> automatically. Also, at the end of the experiment, the nodehandler
>> unloads the driver.
>>
>> At the end of your slot, I will try to test "nodehandler -t -k " and
>> see if I can recreate the problem.
>>
>> On 7/25/06, Einar Vollset <einar at cs.cornell.edu> 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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