Re: [Astlinux-users] Hotplug firmware problem

[Sebastian A. <sp...@sy...>]

>Sebastian Auriol <> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Does anyone know if AstLinux will load firmware for hotplug
>> usb devices and
>> where it is looking for the firmware if it can / does?
>> 
>> I initially copied the firmware into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and
>> modprobe'd the device driver (kernel module) but I got this
>> in the messages
>> log:
>> firmware unavailable (system misconfigured?)
>> 
>> So I tried copying the firmware to /lib/firmware just in case
>> it was looking
>> there, but that didn't help.  Any ideas?
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> 
>> Sebastian
>> 
>> P.S.  I am using AstLinux 0.4 branch from end of Jan.

Darrick Hartman wrote:
>I'll have to look back through my notes on the hotplug stuff.  
>Diethotplug is what is included with Astlinux.  I'm not sure how that 
>handles the firmware.  Perhaps there is a flag you can pass to insmod 
>that will load the firmware (try modinfo yourmodule).

There don't seem to be any flags I can pass to insmod for this module (or at
least nothing obvious from looking at the modinfo output). Do you know where
Diethotplug is looking for the firmware?

Many thanks,

Sebastian