Hostap_pci vs. orinoco_pci

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 20:54, Jar wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> When using FC4 2.6.12, I have to put the following lines to the end of 
> the /etc/hotplug/blacklist to get rid of loading orinoco_pci.
> 
> # a) Do NOT load orinoco_pci when we are using hostap driver
> # b) Do NOT load hostap_pci or it's alias wlan1 defined in
> #    /etc/modprobe.conf, let network service run it instead.
> orinoco_pci
> hostap_pci
> wlan1
> 
> Now when I updated to FC4 2.6.14 this doesn't work any more. I have to 
> delete orinoco_pci. Otherwise both hostap_pci and orinoco_pci are loaded 
> at boot.
> 
> Intresiting thing is (according to dmesg) that the orinoco_pci is loaded 
> first and then hostap_pci. Anyhow, finally lsmod shows that no orinoco* 
> modules has been loaded. Who unloads them, does loading another module 
> (hostap_pci) for same device cause that?
> 
> orinoco 0.15rc2 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel 
> Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
> orinoco_pci 0.15rc2 (Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, David Gibson 
> <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean Tour
> eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> eth2: MAC address 00:0E:6A:6A:6A:6A
> eth2: Station name "Prism  I"
> eth2: ready
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:0a.0 disabled
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
> eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
> ip_conntrack version 2.3 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 236 bytes per conntrack
> u32 classifier
>      Perfomance counters on
>      OLD policer on
>      input device check on
> Ingress scheduler: Classifier actions prefered over netfilter
> ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> hostap_pci: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 11 (level, 
> low) -> IRQ 11
> hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
> wifi0: Original COR value: 0x50
> prism2_hw_init: initialized in 192 ms
> wifi0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
> wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
> wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.4
> wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xdfbff000, irq=11
> wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
> 
> Finally I have to delete orinoco_pci. That is not elegant way to handle 
> this. What is the _great_ idea to put prism2 device IDs to the orinoco 
> driver?
> 
> Is there some other method than the delete method to handle this? What 
> if I had one orinoco_pci and one hostap_pci device in same PC and I want 
> to use orinco driver for orinoco and hostap driver for prism2 device?

Do not build both modules. Or even send patch to remove prism2 dev IDs
from orinoco.
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