Hello Joshua, Friday, December 21, 2007, 7:15:20 PM, you wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:35:04 -0500, Walt Scrivens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. > anything I 'know' about udev I stole from somebody else when i had nearly > the exact problems you are - I'm just trying to keep that knowledge moving > :) >>> >>> Hopefully this is helpful, I will try to verify myself tonight on the >>> recent Release Candidate. > I verified that default behavior on recent 2007RC images uses this udev > rule on the h2200. > Perhaps if this is not more widely distributed amongst the machine types it > should be? This hack is available as udev-hostap-cs-vcc-workaround package. And yes, it is installed by default on h2200. Any other user can easily install it, keeping in mind what's written below: > two caveats: > 1) it sets an ignore voltage control check, which could (in theory) damage > a card - this was the main objection raised against including such a script > in familiar, back when this was originally discussed on that list. > 2) it sets hostap_cs as the one wireless driver to rule them all. works > for me :) because I have only had prism2/2.5 based cards. It might not > work for other chipsets so well... > Isn't there a new wireless wrapper for 2.6 kernels? I can't remember what > it is, but I thought it 'intelligently' chose the proper driver under the > hood, so the user didn't need to know - I may be misinformed. > Rgds, > josh > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
