I've just installed Debian Sarge on a box I've been using as a wireless access point for a couple of years. I've been using and am continuing to use the hostap module on my Intersil Prisim PCI card.
uname -a: Linux hive 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux lspci: 0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) On boot, the orinoco driver loads and detects my Prism card. (dmesg logs follow this email.) I've configured discover to skip the orinoco drivers: /etc/discover.d/hostap-utils: # Blacklist orinoco_*, they load instead of HostAP # for Intersil Prism 2/2.5/3.0 hardware skip orinoco_pci skip orinoco_cs skip orinoco_plx skip hermes However, something else is loading the modules. The driver is being loaded earlier in the boot process than discover runs. How do I prevent this? My current work around is a kludge. I have pre-up commands in my interfaces file that remove the orinoco modules. My AP works fine, but there has to be a way to prevent that orinoco module from loading in the first place. I also have an /etc/modprobe.d/hostap and a /etc/modutils/hostap with the following: alias wlan0 hostap_pci I'm unsure of the current state of modprobe / modutils as well. /etc/rcS.d/S20module-init-tools and /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils both exist. I thought one or the other was depreciated. Any help disabling the orinoco module short of simply removing it -- I'd like to be elegant here :^) -- would be very appreciated! -Jeff SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Linux Kernel Card Services options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> & Jean Tourrilhes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:00:09.0, mem:0xFB800000 to 0xFB800FFF -> 0xcc9a2000, irq:9 Reset done......................................................................... ................................................................................... .............................; Clear Reset........................................................................ ................................................................................... ................................................................................... ................................................................................... .....................................................; pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - FFFC2E88 - FFFC2C94 eth0: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003 eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:09:5B:74:02:FB eth0: Station name "Prism I" eth0: ready 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 0000:00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe000. Vers LK1.1.19 0000:00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xd800. Vers LK1.1.19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
