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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Saturday 23 July 2005 06:57, David Brown wrote:
> Do you run firmware with your drivers?
>
> >From what I understand is that after 058 they started removing the
> > automatic
>
> loading of firmware out of udev. However they do provide a couple of binary
> executables allong with a hook into the rules file so you can still load
> the firmware.  Those files don't get built automatically and they don't
> work with syslog support.
>
> The spell I created fixes both these problems. Mind if I merge what I
> did with your
> changes?


go ahead

i tried using the zd1201 driver in the kernel, which seems to load its 
firmware  ok, but I don"t have wireless network at the moment.


>
> - David Brown
>
> On 7/23/05, Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 July 2005 01:26, David Brown wrote:
> > > I know udev hasn't been updated yet.
> > >
> > > I have a spell for 063 and it seems to work. I have an ipw2200 and it
> > > uses the firmware
> > > and everything seems to load okay. I've tested it on 2.6.10 thru
> > > 2.6.12 and I have
> > > hotplug enabled and everything seems to work fine.
> > >
> > > I'd update the devel udev but treeve has it open and I didn't want to
> > > sneak the update
> > > under his nose.
> >
> > Sorry about that. I lost my internet access for a week while away.
> >
> > the version of udev-063 in devel has been running on my machine for a
> > week without problems.
> >
> > > If people could test it and make sure it works that would be nice.
> > >
> > > - David Brown
> > > dmlb2000
> >
> > --
> > Regards, Treeve
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Regards, Treeve