Re: [Astlinux-users] Hotplug firmware problem

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

Darrick Hartman wrote:
>> 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

If diethotplug is not configured to do anything, does that mean it won't do
anything? Is it possible to configure it with some conf files?

There is a loader for the firmware for use on Linux 2.4 kernels, but it is
not supposed to be needed on Linux 2.6 kernels. I tried to build a package I
created from the source of this firmware loader (and other utils) for
AstLinux anyway, before I realised that it wasn't required (and might not
even work with 2.6), and had problems as there seemed to be a dependency on
libusb-devel, which is not included in AstLinux, (not to mention a badly
written make file).

Many thanks,

Sebastian