Hard Question

[Karl Larsen]

H.S. wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>     I know that somehow, I think the kernel, must look for the wireless 
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> I think udev is responsible to look for/discover hardware (along with hal?).
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>> hardware and then read it and determine what it is, and then choose the 
>> proper kernel drivers to make wireless work. I have a Atheros wireless 
>> device on my laptop and it seems to be using ath_? devices. One is 
>> called ath_pci and this makes me guess it is the thing that finds the 
>> hardware. Then ath5k is the driver the kernel uses to make wireless work.
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>>     Am I full of it, or is this about how it works. I need to know so I 
>> can check the Jaunty updates for a problem.
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>> Karl
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    Udev is sure at least part of the picture according to man udev. It 
does say that udev is sent info from the kernel and udev places the info 
on /dev. I will look and see if I can find where the wireless things are 
on /dev and learn more. I hope.

Karl