The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit dc50eb33e2757c7f5fa8b18de0b74d011b772a54
Author: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun Sep 7 12:15:14 2008 +0300
wireless: load/unload the wireless kernel module only for madwifi
ralink does not need this, hot-plugging works for it allright
ath5k not tested
diff --git a/actions/wireless.sh b/actions/wireless.sh
index 6a309f6..6e421f7 100755
--- a/actions/wireless.sh
+++ b/actions/wireless.sh
@@ -10,18 +10,23 @@ case $1 in
if [ $(cat $wlan_control) = 0 ]; then
echo 1 > $wlan_control
detect_wlan
- modprobe $WLAN_MOD
- # adding a sleep here, due to some bug the driver loading is not
atomic here
- # and could cause ifconfig to fail
- sleep 1
- if ! ifconfig $WLAN_IF up; then exec $0 off; fi
+ if [ "$WLAN_MOD" = 'ath_pci' ]; then
+ # madwifi needs some handholding
+ modprobe $WLAN_MOD
+ # adding a sleep here, due to some bug the driver loading is
not atomic here
+ # and could cause ifconfig to fail
+ sleep 1
+ if ! ifconfig $WLAN_IF up; then exec $0 off; fi
+ fi
fi
;;
off|disable)
if [ $(cat $wlan_control) = 1 ]; then
detect_wlan
- ifdown --force $WLAN_IF
- modprobe -r $WLAN_MOD
+ if [ "$WLAN_MOD" = 'ath_pci' ]; then
+ ifdown --force $WLAN_IF
+ modprobe -r $WLAN_MOD
+ fi
echo 0 > $wlan_control
fi
;;
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