Re: wlan only works at boot

Timothee Besset <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Jenkins wrote:
> --- Timothee Besset <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>wlan 0.2.2 running on a Debian sid 2.6.12 ppc iBook
>>
>>I can only get it working on boot. I have a wlancfg-mynet correctly
>>configured with WEP and all, and it works when I boot. But if I do
>>/etc/init.d/wlan stop, and then start again, all I get is:
>>
>>Starting WLAN Devices: FATAL: Module wlan0 not found.
>>
>>but:
>># grep wlan0 /etc/modules.conf
>>alias wlan0 prism2_usb
> 
> 
> I think you need /etc/modprobe.conf rather than /etc/modules.conf with
> Debian & 2.6 kernels.
> 

Thanks, works better now. sid doesn't have /etc/modprobe.conf, but needs
a 'wlan' file with 'alias wlan0 prism2_usb' in /etc/modprobe.d/ .. so I
think this is missing in the tarball's make install? Anywhere I should
report this?

TTimo

> Dave
> 
> 
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