ifconfig stopped loading driver

[Kevin Oberman]

For a long time under V6 and current (and probably V5), if I issued an
ifconfig for my Atheros card, the driver (along with the HAL and rate
modules) would auto-load and my card would be found.

Starting with my March 19 build, this no longer happens. I need to boot
single-user and manually load the module if I will need it. I don't want
the card to start by default since I don't want the radio on when I am
flying. 

Was this a deliberate change or did something break? It is a real pain.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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