[driverloader] Re: on driverloader 2.04

Linuxant support (Jonathan) support at linuxant.com
Tue Aug 17 17:23:10 EDT 2004


Hi,

if you do not have the 'chkconfig' program on your system, then the 
DriverLoader script is started at priority 14. You can modify this 
behavior in the unconfigure_rcscript() function of the 
'/usr/sbin/dldrconfig' script.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Cristiano De Michele wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 18:40, Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>in both DriverLoader 1.77 and DriverLoader 2.04, since Debian uses the 
>>'chkconfig' program to manage init scripts, the DriverLoader init script 
>>have 11 as start priority.
>>
>>If you want to change the start priority of DriverLoader, please edit 
>>the file '/etc/init.d/driverloader' and change the following line :
>>
>>---
>># chkconfig: 2345 11 91
>>---
>>
>>11 is the start priority of DriverLoader and the last number (91) is the 
>>kill priority of the service. You can use this simple formula to obtain 
>>the kill priority :
>>
>>---
>>kill_prio = 100 - start_prio
>>---
>>
>>After you have made changes to this file, please run the following 
>>command in a root shell :
>>
>>---
>>chkconfig driverloader reset
>>---
>>
>>This command will update the contents of the '/etc/rcN.d' directories.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>
>>Jonathan
>>Technical specialist / Linuxant
>>www.linuxant.com
>>support at linuxant.com
>>
> 
> I'm on debian unstable and I do not have apparently command
> chkconfig...
> I also searched for it doing
> apt-file search chkconfig
> but such a command is not in any debian package...
> 
> 
>>Cristiano De Michele wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 00:29, Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>if you have a CardBUS (32-bit PCMCIA) wireless device, the is the normal 
>>>>behavior that the 'pcmcia' service must be started before the 
>>>>'driverloader' service. The 'pcmcia' service will make your wireless 
>>>>device available in the output of the 'lspci' command so when the 
>>>>DriverLoader module is inserted into the kernel, the module will be able 
>>>>to find the wireless device. As you noticed, the 'driverloader' service 
>>>>does insert the DriverLoader module in the kernel.
>>>
>>>yes I have a cardbus device (USR805410 pcmcia card) 
>>>but in this case driverloader debian package should create a symbolic
>>>link under /etc/rcNN.d/ with a sequence number greater than 20, that is
>>>the sequence number for pcmcia-cs on debian.
>>>Driverloader debian package set 14 as sequence number for driverloader
>>>init script.
>>>Probably does driverloader 1.77 set a sequence number greater than 20
>>>while 2.04 does not?
>>> 
>>>regards Cristiano
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Jonathan
>>>>Technical specialist / Linuxant
>>>>www.linuxant.com
>>>>support at linuxant.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Cristiano De Michele wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>I recently installed driverloader 2.04 on my debian unstable and I noted
>>>>>that if driverloader module is loaded before pcmcia (through
>>>>>/etc/init.d/driverloader init script) then wireless interface does not
>>>>>come up.
>>>>>On the contrary if I start pcmcia first and then driverloader, interface
>>>>>comes up regularly.
>>>>>I did not have such a problem with version 1.77.
>>>>>
>>>>>regards, 
>>>>>Cristiano
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>>
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