-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joachim Selke wrote: > I found out why the modprobe.conf line does not work as expected. It > is not ignored but cannot be executed the way it should be. The > problem is that the ipw3945 module is loaded by udev at a stage when > the filesystem is still mounted read-only. Hence, the ipe3945d > daemon is not able to create its pid file (and also my "touch /test" > test failes). I found this explanation here: > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/10/msg00483.html> Cool, I'd noticed the same issue but never dug enough to find out why it failed to locad properly. > So maybe I have to write my own service or I modify the modprobe > entry such that a script is started in the background that waits for > the filesystem to be mounted read-write and then starts the daemon. You could use this simple init script as a basis for an ipw3945d service: http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init Copy this to /etc/init.d/ipw3945d and use chkconfig add to set it up. - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston Churchill -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQFDBAEBAgAtBQJFYRlwJhhodHRwOi8vd3d3LnBvYm94LmNvbS9+dG16L3BncC90 bXouYXNjAAoJEEMlk4u+rwzj3YkIAKPJc1n7iWal9xjVdorxhln7Fd3lZEJlTVTf 0G0ku/nxVUYDK0fIdjoD9fjPjdEBPsAsPo5ia0Bs+SpZV9RItQ6c4XDfldf1KD0G 2RQrCY/xz/wtvFVKJVPlkASs5fJm9dH0u8cazC5LxdWMgI30pUySrzvqVk2L2I6d 3Lb3F2coa/tT/ae5AV6V965h+dj50nT3WwtgSOD55r8r/DxVhxyI2l5w1cvdvAc0 d5H9X0vFZ9sBxn3ZqqJx5gc5TK6SXSXZyt07xCmrJ2oLoBKXuu+bYxqkei9r5f+W 44LV+NihVFEbFnEh0cfyNVB8ReDMqqyvfKblkOzwL4KQdfoL70s= =iCLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
