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  • From: dave AT sourcemage.org
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ipw2200
  • Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:34:27 -0600

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:09:34AM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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.

So if all I need are the hotplug init, the driver and the firmware, and
I have all those things, why would my firmware not be loading?

Thanks.

--dave.

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