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Title: WIFI driver replacement
Post by: sbarman on July 19, 2004, 12:35:24 pm

Currently the internal WIFI interface of SL6000 uses p80211 driver which is loaded by prism2_usb. We have our own driver for the WIFI interface. What would be the easiest way to load that driver instead of p80211. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Title: WIFI driver replacement
Post by: cvmiller on July 19, 2004, 01:26:00 pm

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Currently the internal WIFI interface of SL6000 uses p80211 driver which is loaded by prism2_usb. We have our own driver for the WIFI interface. What would be the easiest way to load that driver instead of p80211. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In a _big_ linux system you would add it to /etc/modules, but I don't see that on my SL-6000.

So for testing purposes, you can unload the p80211 module manually with 'modprobe -r' and then insert your driver with 'modprobe <module name>'

I suspect that it is going to be more complicated that this, because the kernel will have to be rebuilt to understand how to utilize your module/driver.

I hope this helps,

Craig...