On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 16:07 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 09:33 -0400, John E. Perry wrote: > > Hans van der Merwe wrote: > > > > >> If I'd realized that sooner, and looked at kNetworkManager rather than > > >> KWiFiManager, I probably would have had complete success much sooner. > > > > > > > > > You must still figure out why ipw3945d is not loaded at startup (or at > > > loading of module?) > > > > > > > Hm. Not being an experienced systems programmer or administrator, I > > assumed it was up to me to start it up somewhere in an initialization > > script. > > > > So it should have come up on its own with ipw3945? > > > > jp > > Mine comes up automagically when ipw3945 module is loaded. > > >From the README of ipw3945d, it seems that it must be started after the > module is loaded, "by hand" - I will check my system. > > > > 3. RUNNING BEFORE DRIVER FULLY LOADED > > The typical method for lauching the daemon is to spawn it from within > the modprobe.conf or udev scripts as soon as the ipw3945 module is > loaded. This can cause problems on systems where the module is loaded > earlier in the boot process than the device is probed, or where the > module load is delayed. > > To support this model, the daemon supports the '--timeout' parameter > which can be used to specify how long the daemon should look for the > driver before giving up. The default value is 0, which will exit > immediately if the driver is not found. > > A value of -1 will result in the daemon waiting forever. Any other > value specifies the number of seconds to wait. The daemon will poll > the system once per second looking for the driver's sysfs entries. > > Example usage: > > % ipw3945d --timeout=-1 > > The above will fork the daemon into the background and then wait > forever for the module to load. > >
I checked - I have a file "31-network.rules" in "/etc/udev/rules.d" that adds a rule to execute the script "ipw3945d.sh" in "/lib/udev" when the ipw3945 module is loaded. All very intertwined, but thats how the hotplug system works - so when the ipw3945 hardware is enabled the module is loaded and the script is started. So just check for these file on your system. Good luck Hans E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
