How/if to contribute with Compaq W200 wireless usb?

[Justin Mason]

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vtrac writes:
> ChaNce Wrote: 
> > Ok, well, now it hasn't worked for a few days. I cannot get fn-f2 to
> > work at any time during startup, and it doesn't work when the OS is
> > running. 
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> My W200 has worked on startup maybe once out of 50 boots.  I don't know
> why.  I have to open a root shell, and do this:
> modprobe -r orinoco_usb
> modprobe -v orinoco_usb
> 
> Then I have to go to the Gnome network config and activate the wireless
> interface.
> 
> A dmesg shows that the firmware isn't downloaded correctly during the
> boot process, so hence I have to unload and reload the module.

FWIW, I've encountered this (although on KnoppMyth, not on Ubuntu, and
with a zd1201 driver instead of orinoco_usb). There is a difference
between hotplugging and hotplugging at boot time -- aka. "coldplugging",
and it seems that some drivers at least can't deal with coldplugging.
Very annoying.

I'm currently thinking the difficulty is that 'hotplug' isn't running by
the time the module is loaded from /etc/modules, hence it can't get the
firmware file via that subsystem.  Haven't quite figured it out yet
though...

- --j.
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