have drake03 and will test later.Re driver preference
Regarding the preference "rt2800usb:rt2870sta", I rewrote the code that handles that in Woof, but Lucid is built with an old version of Woof prior to that rewrite.
You might want to inform tempestuous that Drake Puppy 0.3 has the 2.6.39.3 kernel. Search my blog for "drake" to learn more.
pemasu has also built some puppies with the 2.6.39.3 kernel.
Drake is built from a very recent Woof, and I expect that the driver preferences mechanism is working.
rerwin replys:
am changing the names and numbers in the output to protect the innocent.. still not finished . although wlan was disabled in the bios when running the test and the blue wifi indicator light on the eeepc was not on, i have a sneeking suspicion that these drivers have by- passed that disable and are also using my on board wifi as well as the usb dongle. we shall see..aarf,
Thanks for contacting me. Could you make a run as you did originally (without the preference and blacklisting) and run pmodemdiag to capture the situation. Then I might be able to see something that has not been considered. The fact that the preference did not seem to work suggests there could be two wifi devices, USB and PCI, that take similar drivers. At least the diag file would let us rule out that possibility.
Thanks.
Richard