Thanks.
I guess it's RTFM time for me - I have no idea what udev is or how it
works, but then a week ago I didn't know anything about modprobe. I
think the learning is the challenge that keeps me going with Linux.
Thanks to you and all the good folks on this forum for helping me
along :-)
Walt
On Dec 20, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Joshua Layne wrote:
> [SNIP}
> Glad to hear it worked.
>
> You _can_ modprobe hostap on every reboot, but that isn't really the
> 'proper' way of doing it :) The proper way (as I understand it) is to
> create a udev rule for your card that specifies the hostap_cs module
> as the
> proper module to use when the card is inserted.
>
> I have not verified this works in Angstrom (I have been manually
> loading
> modules while testing...), so caveats apply.
>
> I believe the following rule already exists (on the h2200 image at
> least)
> which I originally wrote for familiar / Linksys MA701, but I am not
> positive (and don't have my h2200 with me, I'll check tonight)
>
> As a network card, the card func_id should be 0x06 - the PC card utils
> should give this information.
>
> Hopefully this is helpful, I will try to verify myself tonight on the
> recent Release Candidate.
>
> Rgds,
> Josh
>
>
>
> Old post (in the archives of this list as well)
> edit
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-hostap_cs.rules
>
> ---
> # hostap_cs needs ignore_cis_vcc=1 set - this should handle all cards
> #
> ACTION=="add", DEVICE=="hostap_cs", \
> SYSFS{func_id}=="0x06", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe hostap_cs
> ignore_cis_vcc=1"
> ---
>
> `udevcontrol reload_rules
> kill udev process
> remove card
> remove all modules that might have been loaded for it (hostap_cs,
> hostap,
> orinoco_cs, orinoco, hermes), e.g.:
> `rmmod orinoco_cs
> etc...
>
> `/etc/init.d/udev start
>
>
>
>
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