[Prism54-users] success with Prism54

Herbert Valerio Riedel hvr@hvrlab.org
Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:03:39 +0100


On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 14:39, Nicolas Geoffray wrote:
> A few notes though:
> When I reboot the device doesn't work the first time, i have to unplug
> it and then plug.

btw, which kernel version?

do you load prism54 as module, or have you compiled it statically into
the kernel?

> I try to do network bridging: I don't want to put my card as an AP, but
> I want it to share the wireless connexion (connected to an AP), with my
> desktop computer, which doesn't have a pci wireless card. But in order
> to do so, my broadcom wire card, and the 3Com card must have different
> irqs,

why must they have different irqs?

>  which is not the case for my notebook. So questions are: is there
> a way to change irqs 
IMO it's not possible to change the hw irq's used in a notebook in such
a way to avoid irq sharing, but I could be wrong

> for my wire card or wireless card, and does the
> prism54 driver supports bridging?

does bridging require specific support from the involved network driver?

regards,
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