pcmcia-cs package kills 2.6.18-rc1 kernel?

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Fri Jul 14 03:19:05 EDT 2006


Hello!

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:58 +0200, CIJOML wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> thanks for info. I fixed this kernel freeze using pcmciautils only.
> Now I have 1 major problem:
> 
> I have XI-325 card and also Orinoco card
> 
> so I need  both modules to be compiled, but want pcmciautils bind hostap_cs 
> driver to xi-325 card, but currently it autobinds orinoco_cs module.
> 
> Any solution for this?

I wish I knew an elegant answer for that.  So far, there are several
solutions, but neither is ideal.  You can find details on the web.

1) Don't compile orinoco_cs driver.
2) Unbind orinoco_cs using sysfs.
3) Blacklist orinoco_cs driver using hotplug or udev facilities.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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