On 4/23/06, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Sorry, what I meant was that the original problem (networking never works) remains even if hostap_cs is blacklisted (and doesn't get loaded). So I'm not sure that hostap_cs is causing this problem, it might just be an innocent bystander. > 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. Thanks, I'll give this a try, although it might be a few days. I'm not the primary user of the notebook, and my family is getting a bit peeved at the time I'm spending trying to debug this. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
