loading modules in Fedora 6

[Al Graziano]

Thanks Todd,

as it turns out I was doing my search looking for ipw3945, which of 
course didn't return the .ko which is the driver, and that was in the 
/lib/modules/.. directory, hence loaded by the OS at boot time

I got the exact same packages from ATrpms, and I have noticed that 
putting the required dependencis int he modprobe.con file to launch the 
regulatory daemon is enough. So you don't have to add anything to 
rc.local. There was an issue with modprobe that it was executed while 
the file systems was still in ro mode and did not allow the daemon to 
write the PID, but somehow the modprobe configuration is enough (unless 
I am getting confused after a day on my laptop!)

Incidentally, do you know how to replace the driver associated to a 
PCMCIA card and where that association is maintained. It used to be in 
the /etc/pcmcia.conf but it doens't seem to work anymore.

Ciao
Al
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Al Graziano wrote:
>   
>> Thank you. I was already doing that but my problem at the moment is that 
>> I have a driver for my wireless card, ipw3945 and that gets loaded even 
>> if I don't specify it in the modprobe.conf
>>
>> I installed the driver through rpm so it must have have copied itself to 
>> a directory where modules are read at boot time.
>>     
>
> What rpm did you install it from?  I've been using the package kindly
> provided by ATrpms.  You can see the list of files included in the rpm
> by using the -ql (query, list) option to rpm:
>
> $ rpm -ql ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 
> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/updates
> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/updates/drivers
> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/updates/drivers/net
> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/updates/drivers/net/wireless
> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ipw3945.ko
>
> You may need to use another query first to determine what the package
> name is.  ATrpms uses the $(module)-kmdl-$(kernel-version) scheme.
> You could find all the rpms with ipw3945 in the name via:
>
> $ rpm -qa '*ipw3945*'
> ipw3945-1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at.i386
> ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at.i386
> ...
> ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6-1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at.i686
> ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at.noarch
>
> Alternatively, you can query the rpm file directly by adding the -p
> option:
>
> $ rpm -qpl /path/to/ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.rpm
> ...
>
>   
>> but when I searched for the ipw3945 driver it, I found it in the 
>> following directory
>>
>> /proc/irq/17/ipw3945
>> /sys/module/ipw3945
>> /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945
>>     
>
> How did you do the search?  I'd use find or locate.  Using find:
>
> $ find /lib/modules/ -name '*ipw3945*'
> ...
> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/updates/drivers/net/wireless/ipw3945.ko
>
> Incidentally, I don't know if it will come together well before the
> release, but the current F7 kernels include the newer iwlwifi drivers
> for the ipw3945 cards.  It doesn't require the regulatory daemon any
> longer and thus has a good chance of making into the upstream kernel
> sources.  So hopefully it will just work out of the box.
>
>