[lwlan-devel] enable card automatically

[Tormod Volden]

On Jan 28, 2008 3:57 PM, Solomon Peachy <solomon at linux-wlan.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:03:48PM +0100, Tormod Volden wrote:
> > Would it be possible to set ifstate=enable inside the driver during
> > initialization? Then we could in many cases skip the linux-wlan-ng
> > scripts and udev rules and just ship the kernel modules. Of course,
> > those who need firmware loading would need the whole package (and the
> > loading would have to be preceded by an ifstate=disable).
>
> add to /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> options p80211 wlan_wext_write=1
>
> And that should work.  Not that this disables any run-time firmware
> loads, and as such the card might not behave terribly well.

Hi,
I have always used the wlan_wext_write=1 option, so I don't think it
is enough. Is this option meant to enable the interface automatically,
in addition to allow for wext ioctls? Does it work for anyone else
(without extra wlanctl-ng calls, of course)?

Thanks,
Tormod