Fwd: [Opie] Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 testing

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From: Hans Henry von Tresckow <hvontres_at_gmail.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2008 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Opie] Angstrom Opie 1.2.3 testing
To: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning_at_bluelightning.org>

On Jan 15, 2008 11:53 AM, Paul Eggleton <bluelightning_at_bluelightning.org> wrote:
> Robert E. Anderson wrote:
> > Yesterday I installed this on my hx4700.
> > I have to say that it works better than the Familiar 0.8.4 on the same
> > device.
>
> Well that's progress :) At least the Opie part should work a bit better
> since it has moved forward two versions between them.
>
> > 1. The networking doesn't work out of the box. I needed to modprobe one
> > module before it would work. I'm not sure it that should be done for me
> > on bootup or held off until I configure the network. I think on boot
> > might not be good because it starts the power drawing device. I'm not
> > sure if a hook exists for the Network setting tool to load the module,
> > but it didn't work.
>
> You're referring to WiFi? It's not something I've looked into too closely
> yet, but I know of no way that it could load a module for a built-in
> device on-demand other than at boot time. Not sure how to attack this one.
> My gut feeling is that the module ought to be able to be loaded at boot
> with the device powered off, and then it should power on when you bring up
> the device with ifup, but I'm no expert in WiFi driver conventions so I
> could be wrong here.
>

for my usb networking I added this to my /etc/network/interfaces file:

# Ethernet/RNDIS gadget (g_ether)
# ... or on host side, usbnet and random hwaddr
iface usb0 inet dhcp
        pre-up modprobe g_ether
        post-down rmmod g_ether

This will load the module when the interface is brought up and unloads
it when it comes down. I haven't tried this with the opie aplet yet
tho.

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