Re: debug prism wlan

[Daniel]

Am Sonntag, 13. August 2006 05:20 schrieb Roger While:
> Alistair John wrote:
>  > Daniel wrote:
>  >> Hey, that did it! But now I am a liddle confused. It worked fine
>  >> before. Why does it not work while interface is not up?
>  >
>  > I'm not sure, but I think you've just been lucky.
>  > I've had this problem even before prism54 was merged.
>  > Some in-tree drivers won't upload the firmware until you ifconfig
>  > up them, which obviously means they won't respond adequately
>  > to the wireless extension requests. Maybe a bug?
>
> Nope, no bug. It allows the driver to be built non-modular.
> When non-modular, the resources are not available,
> at boot time, to load the firmware.
>

Hi, I noticed that you can't set the channel _before_ setting an essid. Is 
this behavior correct?

Daniel
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