Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Loading via pcmcia cardmanager

[Cristiano De M. <dem...@na...>]

Hi,
download and install murasaki
(http://www.dotaster.com/~shuu/linux/murasaki/)
then add a line like this to /etc/murasaki/murasaki.pcimap:
 ndiswrapper 	    <vendor_id> <device_id> 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
if you know <vendor_id> and <device_id> of your=20
WiFi card, otherwise starting first time murasaki service it will
suggest you in /var/log/syslog the correct line
to add to /etc/murasaki/murasaki.pcimap

C.

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:20, Pontus Fuchs wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:26, Oliver Friedrich wrote:
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> > Ok, than we are back at the start of this discussion ;)
> > How to tell the cardmanager (i think, part of the hotplug subsystem) to
> > load the ndiswrapper module or signal an already loaded ndiswrapper
> > module to load a new windows driver if needed?
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> A normal kernel module knows what driver it supports and declares this
> in the source. This information is used to create a /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/modules.pcimap file which the hotplug-scripts can use to find the
> correct module for some pci-device. The problem is that ndiswrapper does
> not know in advance which cards it will support because we dynamically
> load the windows drivers. However you can manually edit the pcimap file
> if you feel like it. There are probably other smarter ways do do this
> but I leave that for somebody else to investigate.
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> >=20
> > Perhaps the last point is not complicated to implement, because it
> > seems, that the ndiswrapper recognizes the reinsert of an already loade=
d
> > card and reinit the formerly loaded driver.
> > Does the ndiswrapper get a general notification by the kernel that new
> > hardware was detected or does the kernel only notifify the specific
> > module for this hardware if loaded? If it is a general notification,
> > than ndiswrapper could check, if it has a windows driver for it and loa=
d
> > it additionally to an already initilized driver ...
>=20
> Upon module loading ndiswrapper loads all installed drivers. After this
> we register with the PCI-subsystem as usual so as soon as a hotpluggable
> card (for example cardbus) is inserted we get notified the normal way.
>=20
> Pontus
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