[QCLUG] restart wifi card kernel module

[Luke Atteberry]

Greets,

    Your problem should be as easy as rmmod pcmcia_core, then using 
insmod (or modprobe) pcmcia_core.  If your kernel was built with 
automatic kernel module loading (usually is if your using 2.6) then your 
wifi card module(s) may load right away.  Otherwise you'll need to stop 
the main internet script for your distro, and start it up again to make 
sure things like DNS settings, InetD, Ipchains/tables knows which device 
to look for.

In slackware 11 on 2.6 it's as easy as:

*terminal*
su
lsmod - then look for anything with pcmcia in the name
rmmod - any of those modules
modprobe - those same modules
cd /etc/rc.d
sh rc.inet1 stop
sh rc.inet1 start

I'm sure in Mandriva or Ubuntu it's far faster than that.



Leif Theden wrote:
> if you are talking about the interface settings, that is distro
> specific, but you can use "iwconfig" and "ifconfig" to do some
> higher-level changes.  it may be as simple as unloading the module and
> pulling out the card so that it is hardware reset, if that is what you
> want.
>
>
> On 2/8/07, robmohr@earthnet.net <robmohr@earthnet.net> wrote:
>> Hello Lug,
>>
>> The past few days my old QLi laptop has become erratic.  Many
>> questions but to start, what is the line command to start the wifi
>> card?  To reload the PCMCIA module that the message line has listed as
>> skipped instead of done.
>>
>>
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