Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-17 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:48, Rainer Peter Feller wrote: > are all ipw-2.4-*.fw files present in your firmware dir? Yes, they are. Searching in the www, I found a bug-message "http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/03/msg00233.html"; . Somebody wrote down the log for the event, the ipw

RE: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-17 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 18:23 -0500, David Fix wrote: > You know, you could probably just download the latest firmware from the card > and flash it using a boot floppy, too. ;) > > Dave eh ... I think that THIS firmware files are not to flash, but runtime firmware ... so no, they can't and s

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-17 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 23:18 +0100, Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2006 20:06, Andrew Benton wrote: > After a new reboot dmesg changed into: > > ipw2200: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8 > ipw2200 Copyright... > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enab

RE: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-16 Thread David Fix
> No, of course I had not. No one instruction has told me.to > do. I am really > _getting_mad ! I am used to work on research and > development., but this is a > very hard case of try and error approach. Nevertheless, > please continue > helping, I will return efforts writing a hint for this > ter

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-16 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Monday 16 January 2006 20:06, Andrew Benton wrote: > Have you added a rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/25-lfs.rules to call the > firmware_helper to load the firmware? Something like > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN+="/sbin/firmware_helper" > No, of course I had not. No one instruction ha

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2006 10:31, Andrew Benton wrote: If you want udev to load firmware, you'll need the firmware_helper. Compile udev with make EXTRAS="extras/firmware" make EXTRAS="extras/firmware" install OK, I did so. But nothing special happens: the /EXTRA=extra/fi

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-16 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 22:45 +0100, Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: > OK, I did so. But nothing special happens: the /EXTRA=extra/firmware > directory > is empty. "lsmod" shows ipw2200 but nothing about an firmware. Also, there > are not error messages. Is that OK ? How can I see if the firmware was >

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-15 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Sunday 15 January 2006 10:31, Andrew Benton wrote: > If you want udev to load firmware, you'll need the firmware_helper. > Compile udev with > make EXTRAS="extras/firmware" > make EXTRAS="extras/firmware" install OK, I did so. But nothing special happens: the /EXTRA=extra/firmware directory is

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-15 Thread Andrew Benton
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 17:05, Rainer Peter Feller wrote: make sure you compiled/installed udev with EXTRAS="extras/firmware extras/run_directory" No,according with LFS instructions, I did "make EXTRAS=extras/run_directory" is that not correct ? ( udev-071 ) If you w

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-14 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Friday 13 January 2006 17:05, Rainer Peter Feller wrote: > I use hotplug > -> me too > check if udevd is running (udevd --daemon) -> it is >

Re: firmware hotplug kernel 2.6.15 ? (solution? 2.6.14?)

2006-01-13 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 22:49 +0100, Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:03, Gabe Yoder wrote: > > I'm still using one of the 2.6.14.x kernels, but I don't think that should > > make any difference (and I have an ipw2100 instead of an ipw2200). When > > you installed hotplug, it