Al Graziano wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to change the driver binding to my PCMCIA wireless card, from orinoco to hostap, as I need to put the card in master mode and the orinoco driver doesn't support it. This is what I get from pccardctl
# pccardctl info PRODID_1="INTERSIL" PRODID_2="HFA384x/IEEE" PRODID_3="Version 01.02" PRODID_4="" MANFID=0156,0002 FUNCID=6
# pccardctl status Socket 0: 3.3V 16-bit PC Card Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "orinoco_cs"
I run Fedora 6 and after a lot of reading and googling I realize that much of the PCMCIA stuff has changed alot with the new 2.6 kernel. I was thinking of using the /etc/pcmcia/conf file and put the mapping for the new binding there, and then restart the PCMCIA service. However, all is changed and I am struggling to understand how I can change mapping between the card and drivers. It appears as though the /etc/pcmcia/conf.opts is still used
Any help is greatly appreciated, please :-)
Ciao Al
You may want to take a look at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. I have not tried it, but I suspect that you can ether create a file in /etc/modprobe.d or an entry in /etc/modprobe.conf with something like:
blacklist orinoco_cs
to stop it from being loaded automatically. You will have to run depmod after making the change in order for it to take affect. (This is also done when you reboot...)
Mikkel