Re: h5550 wifi power down

Tried your sequence and suddenly it worked! It will take some time for me
to understand what I did wrong. Thanks to all who responded. It would be
nice to have this incorporated into the Aerial applet.

Alex

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Calum Mackay wrote:

> Alex Bystrov wrote:
> > OK, doing it from scratch.
> > Rebooted,
> > ifdown eth0
> > interface eth0 not configured
> > iwconfig
> > eth0: ... it is configured...
> > ...making wifi work... green LED, ping works...
> > ifconfig eth0 down
> > ifdown eth0
> > interface eth0 not configured (still--AB)
> > the module still cannot be removed...
>
> that's odd. it works for me here:
>
> familiar # ping cdmnet.org
> PING diz (192.168.254.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.254.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.7 ms
> familiar # ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8A:FA:64:D9
> inet addr:192.168.254.4 Bcast:192.168.254.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> familiar # iwconfig eth0
> eth0 ATMEL RFMD503A ESSID:"cdm-wireless" Nickname:"cdm-wireless"
> Mode:Managed Channel:11 Access Point: 00:06:25:EA:5D:A6
> familiar # ifconfig eth0 down; sleep 5
> familiar # rmmod usbvnetr
> familiar #
>
> cheers,
> c.
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Received on Tue Aug 24 12:15:58 2004