On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 18:45 +0530, anmol khurana wrote:
> Hi
> 
> My PCI wireless card uses the module ath5k  . I am using
> compat-wireless to make changes in the source code and
> make/install/load it again and see how my card's working is affected
> by the changes.Basically the following commands 
> 
> ./scripts/driver-select ath5k
> make
> sudo make install
> sudo make unload
> sudo modprobe ath5k
> 
> My problem is when I unload it (in step 4 above) ,it doesn't show
> ath5k when I do lsmod so its not loaded.
> But my wireless card still works and scans networks .Why should it
> still be working when the module it uses is not loaded ?

Run this command and you'll see which devices use which drivers:

ls -l /sys/class/net/*/device/driver

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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