Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-15 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Hi, Pavel Roskin wrote: The patch in question was never submitted to the orinoco mailing list. I believe any such changes should be discussed by people using the driver and participating in its development. It's not some minor change or API update. I'm sorry for not submitting/CCing this to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-15 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:15:10AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Regarding the disabling of IDs, I could prepare a patch for orinoco_cs that would disable Prism2 support via a configuration option. Would that be helpful/acceptable? I'm going to 'officially' drop this patch, while you and

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Jiri Benc
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:30:56 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Unfortunately, that workaround doesn't work so well when you want to have the ability to plug real orinoco (hermes) cards to your computer... In other words and unless I'm missing something, there isn't currently a way to have a

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Kershaw
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:24:49PM +0300, Jar wrote: It always loads itself with or without blacklist. That's why I have to do 'rm -f orinoco*.* depmod -a' when the new kernel arrives. Seems that users are directed to use unsecure orinoco (wep) driver rather than secure hostap

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, John! On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:24 -0400, John W. Linville 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

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:10 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: 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. I

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-13 Thread Jar
Stephen Hemminger wrote: use blacklist in module config to block one. Just put in /etc/modprobe.conf blacklist orinoco Unfortunately this is not work at least it is not work with FC4. I can blacklist eepro100 and 8139cp. blacklist eepro100 blacklist 8139cp but I can't blacklist orinoco_pci

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: Ah-ha, I had tested the wrong card. I also have a Sitecom card, which matches this ident you remove in your patch.. PCMCIA_DEVICE_MANF_CARD(0xd601, 0x0002), /* Safeway 802.11b, ZCOMAX AirRunner/XI-300 */ snip So with your

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread John W. Linville
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

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:24:39AM -0400, John W. Linville 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

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:39:58PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: FWIW, I think we've experienced a similar situation like this in the past in the networking land and the consensus was to completely remove the other driver. I'm referring to e100/eepro100, of course. The difference with

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
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

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Stephen Hemminger wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:50:10PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a separate driver for them (HostAP). Additionally, kill orinoco_{pci,plx,nortel} completely,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:27:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:50:10PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a separate driver for them

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: Under hostap, it's a brick, it won't even report any scanning results. Did you switch it into managed mode? The hostap driver, iirc, defaults to running in master (AP) mode. Cheers, Kyle - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:31:40PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:40:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: Under hostap, it's a brick, it won't even report any scanning results. Did you switch it into managed mode? The hostap driver, iirc, defaults to running in

[PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a separate driver for them (HostAP). Additionally, kill orinoco_{pci,plx,nortel} completely, since they only exist to support Prism cards. No attempt was made to clean up the rest of the driver of the actual Prism II code, only the PCI

Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:50:10PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Remove Prism II IDs from the orinoco driver since now we have a separate driver for them (HostAP). Additionally, kill orinoco_{pci,plx,nortel} completely, since they only exist to support Prism cards. No attempt was made to