My laptop (inspiron 6400) has an intel 3945 wireless chip and hence I
use net-wireless/ipw3945{,d,-ucode}.
If I include ipw3945 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, I get an
error msg during boot
Failed to load ipw3945
However, everything works fine. Specifically, ifconfig shows that the
wireless network is up.
Certainly, I can live with this situation, but getting a "yellow star"
during boot seems unclean.
So I tried removing ipw3945.
Naturally, the above error msg is gone.
But now the ipw3945d initscript fails when it attempts to access
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd
The wireless network is not available and cannot be started,
If I now execute
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.20-gentoo-r7/net/wireless/ipw3945.ko
/etc/init.d/ipw3945d restart
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart
no errors appear and all is well (wireless works fine).
What is the clean way to do this? Currently I am using the first
method above and averting my eyes when the yellow star is to appear.
thanks,
allan
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