Re: [Astlinux-users] Hotplug firmware problem

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Sebastian Auriol wrote:
>> 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?
>
>
>   
Looking at this further, I'm not sure why we're even including 
diethotplug.  It's not configured to do anything.  It also looks pretty 
dated and possibly replaced by something newer.  Sorry I can't be of 
more help.  I'm almost thinking that there should be a utility that 
comes with the driver to load the firmware.  The only hardware 
experience I have with firmware are the Hauppauge PVR X50 cards which 
work with a firmware loader.

Darrick

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