wifi pcmcia card only works if inserted after booting FC5
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Apr 23 23:42:13 UTC 2006
Lonni J Friedman writes:
> On 4/23/06, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> 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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