From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Adam Turk <bofh1234@hotmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc1 and no /dev/rt73usb
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:46:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802152146.06364.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY101-W21A064889BC2442893B63BC8260@phx.gbl>
On Friday 15 February 2008, Adam Turk wrote:
>
> > You need to enable KMOD. Otherwise you must manually preload
> > the relevant modules.
>
> I thought that was what udev was for? Anyway I recompiled with KMOD enabled and I have partial success. I nolonger get any errors when I plug in my wireless card.
> dmesg says:
> usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
>
> I do a ifconfig rt73usb up and I get a device not found.
> I do a ifconfig -a and see the card is called wlan0 and wmaster0.
> So there is a disparity having somewhere. wlan0 or rt73usb? Which is it?
You are completely missing the point of the concept "modules",
the module rt73usb is intended to support devices with the rt73 chipset.
The rt73usb driver registers the device and creates an network interface
inside the kernel. This interface is visible to you as user. The name of this
interface is wlan, depending on the number of wireless network cards in
your system the interface number is attached to it so in your case wlan0.
Ivo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-15 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <BAY101-W101FB386E1EF7402881964C8260@phx.gbl>
[not found] ` <20080215050358.GA10363@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-02-15 20:27 ` kernel 2.6.25-rc1 and no /dev/rt73usb Adam Turk
2008-02-15 20:33 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-15 20:46 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2008-02-15 21:08 ` Adam Turk
2008-02-15 21:15 ` Luis Correia
2008-02-15 21:24 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-02-15 21:53 ` Adam Turk
2008-02-16 0:22 ` Herbert Xu
2008-02-14 18:14 Adam Turk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-14 1:14 Adam Turk
2008-02-14 1:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-14 2:28 ` Adam Turk
2008-02-14 9:49 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2008-02-14 13:56 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-14 17:52 ` Chatre, Reinette
2008-02-14 14:31 ` Johannes Berg
2008-02-14 23:41 ` Herbert Xu
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