Re: Re: ipw2200 recognized as wired connection

[Pozsar Balazs <pozsy uhulinux hu>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:41:40PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > I found the solution. ipw2200 is a module, and is being loaded after
> > hal starts. After restarting hal and wpa_supplicant, alle access
> > points are being detected.
> > 
> > hope, this will help someone.
> > 
> > now, I have to find out how to detect ipw2200 corectly without
> > restarting hal. do you have any ideas?
> 
> Ensure that (a) your kernel does hotplug correctly, slackware may not do
> this right, and that (b) you load ipw2200 by default on startup.
> 
> In most distributions, the kernel should load the ipw2200 module when it
> sees the ipw2200 device, and send hotplug events to userspace, which are
> handled by udev, which then notifies HAL.


I've seen similar problems and I think the problem is in HAL: sometimes 
for some kind of race condition it cannot detect the driver.
I haven't managed to debug it, but this is a real problem.

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pozsy