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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:05:27 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > I might be lost here but... How is the firmware loaded when using the > ipw2100-1.0.0/patches Kernel patch? It is loaded by request_firmware() during initialization of the adapter. That doesn't work, as at that time no hotplug binary can be executed (we are talking about ipw2100 built in the kernel, not built as a module). > Currently, when we install the driver, it associates to any open network on > boot. This is good, cause we don't want to be typing the commands all the > time just to associate. It works this way now and is pretty nice. It sounds very dangerous to me. > So, to scan a network, I would have to do ifconfig eth1 up ; iwlist eth1 > scan? No. Driver should request the firmware when it is told to perform a scan. > When moving from modes with the firmwares, would I have to do ifconfig eth1 > up ; iwconfig eth1 mode monitor? or would the firmware be loaded with > iwconfig? Does it have that function? Firmware can be loaded automatically by the driver when there is some request from userspace and the firmware has not been loaded yet. -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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