Re: 80211 patch3 (to be committed)

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/8/06, Alex Burke <alexjeffburke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am still doing testing with my atheros card, and will report back
> soon - but just reading part of this thread, reminded me of something
> i found while doing the last set.
>
> It appears you must must load the modules in the correct order...and
> the following worked well for me:
> ath_hal
> ath_rate
> if_ath
>
> A couple of times, i managed to pull ath_rate out from under if_ath (i
> was testing the different rate agorithms), and after loading the new
> rate module and doing ifconfig ath0 up scan the machine paniced and
> dropped me a debugger prompt. So I think your right, it might be a
> module dependency issue - i guess if_ath needs to be unloaded if any
> of the other modules get unloaded?
>
> Thing is, since those files were just for testing, I guessed that when
> they got integrated into the kernel tree as modules that issue would
> go away.

Please try the new tar ball(ath.tbz) on leaf, the problem actually was
resolved several days ago, but I forgot to throw it onto leaf :P

Best Regards,
sephe

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