Re: wifi pcmcia card only works if inserted after booting FC5

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Lonni J Friedman writes:

On 4/23/06, Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> This card uses the orinoco_cs driver, however for some bizarre reason
> the hostap_cs driver is also getting loaded, even though its never
> used.

The hostap_cs driver might be "hogging" the card (for lack of better
wording). You might want to try adding that to your
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.

Sorry, forgot to mention, I've tried that already too.  It makes no difference.

Explain. If hostap_cs still gets loaded, you must've made a typo in the blacklist file. If hostap_cs does not get loaded, you need to keep digging.

Although I have no specific knowledge of these drivers, I have been hacking the startup scripts recently, so there are a couple of things worth trying.

Create a new file in /etc/modprobe.d, containing:

install orinoco_cs /bin/true

This'll keep kudzu from loading the module immediately after the kernel initializes. This is just a temporary thing -- this'll also keep hotplug from loading the module if the card is inserted when the system is running. You just want to check if by preventing the module from getting loaded on early in the boot process, and when the system is done booting, if a "modprobe -i orinoco_cs" brings the card up. If so, there might be something in the early boot environment that keeps the module from coming up correctly.

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