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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ipw2200
  • Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:09:34 +0100

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:09:31PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> > Does anyone have this working with static dev? I have a thinkpad and an
> > hp pavillion, both running static dev, same version of hotplug on both.
> > The thinkpad loads the firmware and driver just fine, the pavillion, not
> > so much. I can't really figure out the difference between the two, and
> > quite honestly I don't have a good picture of all the pieces here, so
> > forgive my ignorance.
>
> is udevd running? even if you have a static dev udevd should still be
> running because now it's the process that loads the firmware.

For static /dev you actually want hotplug, not udev. udev won't care
that /dev isn't a ramfs and just happily add and remove devices, that's
not what you want on a static dev system. The hotplug init script only
disables hotplug if the user uses a 2.6.15 kernel _and_ udev, not for
static ones.

> > As I understand it, the ipw2200 card needs a firmware and a driver. The
> > driver is loaded as a kernel module, and the firmware is loaded by the
> > hotplug scripts. I believe that the problem with the pavillion is that
> > the firmware is just not being loaded, but I'm not sure where to start
> > with figuring out why. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> udevd now does the loading of the firmware (if you are using 2.6.15 on
> both machines), make sure it's running on both boxes...
>
> - David Brown
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