Ubuntu
linux-wlan-ng package

tries to load p80211 or ieee80211 modules

Bug #65195 reported by Tormod Volden on 2006-10-10

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-wlan-ng (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Tormod Volden

Bug Description

/etc/network/if-pre-up/linux-wlan-ng tries to load p80211 or ieee80211. Contrary to common belief, these modules are not equivalent. Ieee80211 should not be tried loaded here (not that it does much harm though).

In edgy the p80211 is built-in. The script should try to detect if it is built-in (or already loaded) and if not, try to load it, and then if not, fail.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote on 2006-10-13:

patch for linux-wlan-ng-pre-up Edit (432 bytes, text/plain)

This patch should make it cleaner. Works fine with edgy. For dapper, this patch will not be enough, since the dapper kernel has p80211 built-in, but does not initialize it correctly to have the /proc/net/p80211 tree created (see bug #53748).

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote on 2007-05-19:

linux-wlan-ng (0.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  [ Tormod Volden ]
  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - debian/control updates concerning modules in Ubuntu kernels.
    - no hotplug agent
    - enable CONF_etc_Makefile.dpatch for udev rules
    - enable CONF_etc_linux-wlan-ng_rules.dpatch
  * better p80211 module probing (closes ubuntu #65195)
  * use DRIVERS in udev rules (closes ubuntu #78021)
  * move udev rules to before ifupdown (ubuntu #29706)
  * new udev rules and ubuntu-wlan-udev-sh.dpatch for
      network-manager compatibility (ubuntu #104037)
  * changed maintainer fields