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

[Denzen, Carl van]

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Hello list,

There is still a problem in the -pre9 scripts. I patched it to NOT fail on a
failed download (I put a # before the "return 1").
Another patch I made was to put HAS_HOTPLUG=n somewhere. This way, the
initialisation is done by the /etc/init.d/wlan script itself.

I still have one problem: ifup is run before the /etc/init.d/wlan script, so
wlan doesn't come up automatically after a system start. I will try to solve
this by putting ifup $1 in the script "shared", but that is not a very nice
solution I think.

It would also be nice to change the fwload in the "shared" script into
something like this:
if [ ! -x $blabla_fwload ] ; then # no executable for firmware download
available
   $ECHO Info: no wlan download program available: $blabla_fwload
else
   if ! $blabla_fwload ; then
      result=$? # ?????
      $ECHO Error: wlan download failed
   else
      $ECHO wlan download succeeded
   fi
fi

I once had a problem with the $ECHO definition. Maybe the check on this
should not be "-n $ECHO" but the more widely used ' "$ECHO" = "" '.

David, I did not forget the modules.conf entries.

Documentation could be better:
- what is firmware version? I see three versions.
- say something about kernel versions, usbfs and firmware versions
- say something about hotplugging and usb (I still think usb hotplugging for
wlan doesn't work at all, but maybe I am mistaken)

The prism2_usb and p80211 could give some hints on errors. I spent a lot of
hours experimenting and seeing the timeout errors. A hint about usbfs would
be nice (or are there many other possible reasons for this error?).

Carl.
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