On 12/06/06 17:10 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > On 6/12/06, John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > > >> Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > >> pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection. > > > >This subject comes-up from time to time. In fact, I'm pretty sure > >it came-up very recently w.r.t. orinoco and hostap. > > > >The consensus seems to be that drivers should have IDs for all devices > >they support, even if that means that some devices are supported by > >multiple drivers. This leaves the choice of which driver to use in > >the hands of the user and/or distro. > > my problem is that for my prism 2 adapter both drivers are loaded at > which point neither of them works. I'm running FC5, and i have to > keep removing the orinoco*.ko files to keep them from loading, so I'm > all for this patch. >
use blacklist in module config to block one. Just put in /etc/modprobe.conf blacklist orinoco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
