DWL-520 trouble

Ka-Hing Cheung kahing
Fri Jul 9 13:38:34 PDT 2004


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:03:33 -0700, Ka-Hing Cheung <kahing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using hostap-driver 0.2.0 or 0.2.3 and hostap-utils 0.2.1 in both
> cases, modprobe hostap_pci would render the machine unusable
> (non-pingable, nothing works). All it outputs is this (typed by hand):
> 
> hostap_pci: 0.2.0 - 2004-02-15 (Jouni Malinen <email>)
> hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0

Nevermind, I figured it out. It turns out that I need to unload the
modules before rebooting, otherwise loading the modules next time
would result bring down the machine. Not fun.

Anyone know a way of auto unloading the modules whenever the interface
is brought down?

-khc




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