Return-path: Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.191]:64519 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752241AbYBOUqP (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:46:15 -0500 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i10so869253mue.5 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:46:13 -0800 (PST) To: Adam Turk Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.25-rc1 and no /dev/rt73usb Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:46:06 +0100 Cc: Herbert Xu , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <20080215050358.GA10363@gondor.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200802152146.06364.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (sfid-20080215_204622_278449_0534C132) From: Ivo van Doorn Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 15 February 2008, Adam Turk wrote: > > > You need to enable KMOD. Otherwise you must manually preload > > the relevant modules. > > I thought that was what udev was for? Anyway I recompiled with KMOD enabled and I have partial success. I nolonger get any errors when I plug in my wireless card. > dmesg says: > usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb > > I do a ifconfig rt73usb up and I get a device not found. > I do a ifconfig -a and see the card is called wlan0 and wmaster0. > So there is a disparity having somewhere. wlan0 or rt73usb? Which is it? You are completely missing the point of the concept "modules", the module rt73usb is intended to support devices with the rt73 chipset. The rt73usb driver registers the device and creates an network interface inside the kernel. This interface is visible to you as user. The name of this interface is wlan, depending on the number of wireless network cards in your system the interface number is attached to it so in your case wlan0. Ivo