Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Loading via pcmcia cardmanager
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From: <az...@se...> - 2004-03-16 23:50:55
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oliver Friedrich wrote: | With the cardmanager this would be work like this: | The system is booted and the pcmcia services are started. this is in th= e | most cases true for all laptops. | After some time the user inserts a pcmcia card and the cardmanager | searches for the right driver and loads it. | | The same would happen if the card was in the slot at boot time. After | the start of the pcmcia services the driver for the card would be loade= d. | | If i don't want to load a special driver for some hardware (in this cas= e | i want the ndiswrapper module to load if some unknown hardware is | inserted), then i wouldn't search for a automatic solution ;) What will you do I you have a broken ndiswrapper and/or windowsdriver, then the kernel would get a panic and that's not good ;) Maybe I'm just to negative on this, but I think that it wouln't automaticly load a driver. Atleast not the kernel module. If you want this, then a user-space tool would be a solution if you can't set cardmanager to _not_ insert the modul if user don't want to. Btw, I have very litle experiense with cardmanager, so I could have got it hole wrong. Regards, - -- ~ .''`. Torbj=F6rn Svensson, azoff (at) se (dot) linux (dot) org ~ : :' : 7EB9 2DC5 61AE DAB5 7099 BAC6 798E E39A DBDB 0CFD ~ `. `' http://azoff.homeip.net:8080/ | http://azoff.tty0.org ~ `-- http://www.se.linux.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAV5LXeY7jmtvbDP0RAomrAKCScuuBMthVW3fPT+uWfifzG9aR9wCcCgiY NvAEEmmGAyKeuvC/nAEvhG8=3D =3D5MsW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |