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

[David Cook]

>>Do you have the alias wlan0 prism2_usb entry in modules.conf?

	I'd bet that entry is missing.  And note that you may
	need a matching 'options' entry in there, too.  I did NOT know
	about putting anything in 'modules.conf' for a week or so,
	back when I struggled with my setup.

	(The 'modules.conf' change is easy to miss because it's mentioned
	 ONLY in the FAQ. Someone needs to mention it also in the README
	 file, which is what we concentrate on when trying to
	 learn this arcane artistry called 'setting up wlan-ng'
	 for any given wireless-adapter.)

	Sorry for the rant, but the documentation could stand
	a more careful re-write and cleanup.  This approach seems much
	too complicated for an average Linux system manager to
	figure out readily.  I remember feeling like a
	kid on an easter-egg hunt, as I alternately re-read
	the README file, executed suggested cmds and tried
	to figure out which set of startup files to put the
	various cmds into.  I did read the FAQ once or twice
	early on, but then somehow forgot to keep reading it.
	(That cost me dearly...I spun my wheels alot until I
	 finally noticed the FAQ entry about 'modules.conf'.)

	To be fair, though, having so many different distributions
	of Linux, with their inconsistent set of networking startup
	files, makes this problem INHERENTLY complex.  Add to that the
	fact that the prism chipset comes in so many different
	bus flavors (e.g. PCI, PCMCIA, USB) and it becomes difficult
	to describe all that clearly in one document.

	Cheers...

		Dave [who is happy that HE isn't the documentation person]

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-wlan-user-admin@lists.linux-wlan.com
[mailto:linux-wlan-user-admin@lists.linux-wlan.com]On Behalf Of Gerd
Fleischer
Sent: July 02, 2003 16:45
To: linux-wlan-user@lists.linux-wlan.com
Subject: Re: [lwlan-user] [lwlan-user]: FW: USB WLAN and SuSE 8.2


Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2003 10:13 schrieb Denzen, Carl van:
> 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.

Yes, I'm using them too (Beside that it always saying "brought up
sucessfully", also in the case it failed). What firmware version do you
have?
Since I upgraded to 1.1.2 + 1.5.6 it works with the usb ... filesystem
enabled. This way it works also with my SuSE default kernel.
But I have no problem with loading the modules, it's always done
automatically
(maybe an issue with the usbfs?, I don't remember how it was with older
firmware). Do you have the alias wlan0 prism2_usb entry in modules.conf?


Greetings, Gerd

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