pcmcia driver

[thomas chen]

if i need two cards to run at the SAME time (with different driver).... 
one with hostap_cs and one with orinoco_cs (both are running).... 
unbind first driver would not disrupt the operation of first driver ???

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:25 -0500, thomas chen wrote:
> > question, for a system with multiple PCMCIA slots, is it possible
> > to specify which driver to load on A PARTICULAR slot....  the
> > current implementation of device id seem to dictate that the
> > same card needs to use the same driver ....
> >
> > for example, if i want to use two WIFI card, one loaded with
> > hostap_cs and the other to use orinoco_cs... is this possible  ???
> > both are the same card, therefore the CIS will tell the pcmcia
> > that they are the same device
> 
> Unbind one driver and bind another.  It was discussed in this list.
> 
> Sure, it would be nice to have a module/kernel parameter to prevent
> automatic binding of the driver to any devices.  That would eliminate
> the need to unbind drivers, as well as obviate the risk that the wrong
> driver would do something wrong with the device.  It was discussed as
> well, but it hasn't been implemented so far.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin

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