Re: [Madwifi-devel] Unloading and Reloading madwifi-bsd modules

[Michael R. <ma...@no...>]

Hi.

Linux781 wrote:
> It's probably a stupid question, but I am trying to modify the
> madwifi-bsd driver, and wanted to know a way to unload the modules and
> reload them after I finish compiling.

Write a small script that you call to recompile, which performs the
necessary steps. Given that you load Madwifi via modprobe, you can
unload the modules by "modprobe -r". Example:

# load with
modprobe ath_pci
modprobe wlan_wep

...

# unload with
modprobe -r wlan_wep
modprobe -r ath_pci

Before you unload the modules, you will need to disable all
madwifi-driven interfaces via "ifconfig athX down". Additional steps,
such as stopping the DHCP client for each of these interfaces, might
also be necessary.

Bye, Mike