Prism 2 Wireless under 2.6 kernel

Hans Scheffers hans at jiflin.nl
Fri Jan 16 15:46:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 15:35, Wade Chandler wrote:
> Hans Scheffers wrote:
> 
> > I cannot choose the orinoco drivers in the neat configuration.. How do I
> > add them? The modules are on the system and a modpobe orinoco_cs does
> > work..
> > grtz
> > On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 12:18, daniel_oxley at westlb-systems.co.uk wrote:
> > 
> >>the orinoco drivers that come with FC1 have been generic enough for me to
> >>use with a few wireless cards.  they always fail to initialise upon boot
> >>but when started manually, they are fine.
> >>
> >>
> >>I updated my system to rawhide, and did a yum update, and rebooted to use
> >>the new 2.6 kernel. Then I did "rpm --erase linux-wlan-ng". Then using the
> >>GUI of system-config-network I added the wireless card as eth1, and
> >>clicked "active".
> >>
> >>It was surprising painless until it didn't work ;)
> >>
> >>-Marc O'Morain
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>--

> Are you modules in your drivers path?  You can see man modules.conf or 
> man modprobe to understand where to put them.  depmod will be ran on 
> startup, so you should only have to put your modules in your path.  You 
> could edit modules.conf and add another PATH line if you do not want to 
> have to copy the files into the main modules/drivers path.  Those are 
> just some suggestions.
> 
> Wade
Modules are in the path & loaded.
Using neat i added the interface, but upon activating nothing happens.
tail /var/log/messages gives:

Jan 16 16:23:52 magnycours kernel: neat: numerical sysctl 1 23 is
obsolete.
Jan 16 16:23:54 magnycours kernel: neat: numerical sysctl 1 49 is
obsolete.
Jan 16 16:23:54 magnycours kernel: neat: numerical sysctl 1 49 is
obsolete.

-- 
Hans Scheffers
email:hans at jiflin.nl





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