[lwlan-user] [lwlan-user]: FW: USB WLAN and SuSE 8.2

[Denzen, Carl van]

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Hello Andreas and Thilo and Gerd Fleischer (www.gerdfleischer.de)

The 0.2.1 scripts are not as bad as I thought. The download message doesn't
seem to be a fatal error. The most important thing is, to disable USB
Preliminary file system in your kernel. You have to recompile your kernel.
I still have to do ifup wlan0 manually, because I did not find yet any
apropriate SuSE boot file to put the commands to load prism2_usb and to init
the usb wlan adapter (boot.local doesn't work, it won't load prism2_usb for
some reason, maybe I made a mistake somewhere, or the system is not ready to
load modules at this point of the boot process).
I use it in a ad-hoc network, wlan-ng 0.2.1-pre8 and it works.

Carl.

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Denzen, Carl van  
> Sent:	maandag 23 juni 2003 13:02
> To:	'linux-wlan-user@lists.linux-wlan.com'
> Subject:	USB WLAN and SuSE 8.2
> 
> Hello Andreas en Thilo,
> 
> I am trying to get the same usb wlan thing working (mine is labelled
> Sitecom WL-012, but I think it is the same Intersil chip).
> I am having a lot of problems with it. I only have had it working under
> Mandrake 9.1 with the shipped wlan-ng drivers (I think it is 0.1.16pre5).
> But no hotplug, I had to unplug, unload driver (rmmod prism2_usb), plug,
> /etc/init.d/wlan start, ifup wlan0 every time I wanted to use it.
> A first try on SuSE 8.2 failed, now I have upgraded my kernel to 2.4.21,
> need to do some setup.
> 
> The problems I face are: errors in wlan 0.2.1 scripts. p.e. if no download
> program available, the script /etc/wlan/shared stops with an error
> (despite of Salomon's remark about this).
> Hotplug has never worked for me for usb wlan. So I hacked the net.agent
> script, I just put an "exit 0" at the very beginning, to avoid the hotplug
> mechanism reading the proc file system. Some people say that this can lead
> to a not working usb connection to the device.
> 
> So Andreas: if you got it working, would you be so kind to mail the
> details to this mailing list? (kernel version, kernel .config if you
> modified it, wlan version, scripts you changed etc.). I will do the same.
> 
> And if anybody else has SuSE 8.2 and wlan usb working: please report how
> you did it.
> 
> Carl van Denzen.
> 
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