Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

From: Zhu Yi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:33:10 +0800

Hi Pavel,

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 00:34 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Actually it would still transmit when user did not want it to. I
> believe that staying "quiet" is right thing, long-term. And it could
> solve firmware-loading problems, short-term...

If ipw2100 is built into kernel, you can disable it by kernel parameter
ipw2100.disable=1. Then you can enable it with:

$ echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/*/rf_kill

> How long does association with AP take? Anyway it should be easy to
> tell driver to associate ASAP, just after the insmod...

Are you suggesting by default it is disabled for built into kernel but
enabled as a module?

Thanks,
-yi