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
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
Thank you. I did look at the blacklist file (it may work) but I still need to bind the wireless card to the new driver. Do you know where such binding info is kept?
Ciao Al
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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
Al Graziano wrote:
Thank you. I did look at the blacklist file (it may work) but I still need to bind the wireless card to the new driver. Do you know where such binding info is kept?
Ciao Al
The default bindings are generated by depmod and are in the modules directory for the specific kernel. Take a look at the modules.alias file. Just blacklisting the orinoco_cs module may be enough. As long as the hostap module was in the kernel module tree when you ran depmod, it should also be listed as a module for that card. Try it and see if that works.
If it doesn't, you can ether add a rule to modprobe.conf that loads the module you want when you try and bring up the interface, (easy) or alias the the device itself (harder). Something like:
alias wlan0 hostap or alias pcmcia:m*c*f*fn*pfn*paC4F8B18Bpb474A1F2Apc*pd* hostap
It might be easier to write a udev rule to load the module when the card is detected. (I know how to translate the PCMCIA user and product codes into udev rules, but not the alias rule above.)
Mikkel
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