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DateSun, 13 Aug 2006 07:20:46 +0200
FromRoger While <>
SubjectRe: debug prism wlan
Alistair John wrote:
 > Daniel wrote:
 >> Hey, that did it! But now I am a liddle confused. It worked fine before.
 >> Why does it not work while interface is not up?

 > I'm not sure, but I think you've just been lucky.
 > I've had this problem even before prism54 was merged.
 > Some in-tree drivers won't upload the firmware until you ifconfig
 > up them, which obviously means they won't respond adequately
 > to the wireless extension requests. Maybe a bug?

Nope, no bug. It allows the driver to be built non-modular.
When non-modular, the resources are not available,
at boot time, to load the firmware.

Roger While


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