Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-15 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:15:10AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Regarding the disabling of IDs, I could prepare a patch for orinoco_cs > that would disable Prism2 support via a configuration option. Would that > be helpful/acceptable? I'm going to 'officially' drop this patch, while you and P

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Hi, Pavel Roskin wrote: > The patch in question was never submitted to the orinoco mailing list. > I believe any such changes should be discussed by people using the > driver and participating in its development. It's not some minor change > or API update. I'm sorry for not submitting/CCing this

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:10 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > my problem is that for my prism 2 adapter both drivers are loaded at > which point neither of them works. I'm running FC5, and i have to > keep removing the orinoco*.ko files to keep them from loading, so I'm > all for this patch. I bel

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, John! On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:24 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > > Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > > pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection. > > This s

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Kershaw
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:24:49PM +0300, Jar wrote: > It always loads itself with or without blacklist. That's why I have to > do 'rm -f orinoco*.* && depmod -a' when the new kernel arrives. Seems > that users are directed to use unsecure orinoco (wep) driver rather than > secure hostap (wpa/wp

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Jiri Benc
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:30:56 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Unfortunately, that workaround doesn't work so well when you want to > have the ability to plug real orinoco (hermes) cards to your computer... > In other words and unless I'm missing something, there isn't currently a > way to have a He

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-13 Thread Jar
Stephen Hemminger wrote: >use blacklist in module config to block one. >Just put in /etc/modprobe.conf >blacklist orinoco Unfortunately this is not work at least it is not work with FC4. I can blacklist eepro100 and 8139cp. blacklist eepro100 blacklist 8139cp but I can't blacklist orinoco_p

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> my problem is that for my prism 2 adapter both drivers are loaded at >> which point neither of them works. I'm running FC5, and i have to >> keep removing the orinoco*.ko files to keep them from loading, so I'm >> all for this patch. >> > > use blacklist in module conf

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On 12/06/06 17:10 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > On 6/12/06, John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > > >> Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > >> pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplu

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On 6/12/06, John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection. This subject comes-up from time t

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:39:58PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > FWIW, I think we've experienced a similar situation like this in the > past in the networking land and the consensus was to completely remove > the other driver. I'm referring to e100/eepro100, of course. The difference with

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:24:39AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > > Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > > pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection. > > This subject

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection. This subject comes-up from time to time. In fact, I'm pretty sure it came-up very recently

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > Ah-ha, I had tested the wrong card. > I also have a Sitecom card, which matches this ident you remove in your > patch.. > > PCMCIA_DEVICE_MANF_CARD(0xd601, 0x0002), /* Safeway 802.11b, ZCOMAX > AirRunner/XI-300 */ > > > So with you

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:31:40PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > Under hostap, it's a brick, it won't even report any scanning results. > > > > Did you switch it into managed mode? The hostap driver, iirc, defaults > to running

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > Under hostap, it's a brick, it won't even report any scanning results. > Did you switch it into managed mode? The hostap driver, iirc, defaults to running in master (AP) mode. Cheers, Kyle - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:27:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:50:10PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > > Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a > separate > > > driver fo

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:50:10PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a separate > > driver for them (HostAP). Additionally, kill orinoco_{pci,plx,nortel} > > completel

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:50:10PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a separate > driver for them (HostAP). Additionally, kill orinoco_{pci,plx,nortel} > completely, since they only exist to support Prism cards. > No attempt was made

[PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a separate driver for them (HostAP). Additionally, kill orinoco_{pci,plx,nortel} completely, since they only exist to support Prism cards. No attempt was made to clean up the rest of the driver of the actual Prism II code, only the PCI I