On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:13, Bill Nottingham wrote:
The default firmware directory for hotplug is being changed to /lib/firmware from /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. This is being done so that device module loading on boot will work correctly.
This will affect those of you with prism54, ipw2100/ipw2200 cards, and other cards that need hotplugged firmware.
Bill
Ahhh good!
I was wondering if there was a bug filed about that, but have been too lazy/overworked to check.
It is good to get this working properly, as there has been many, many threads over on the ipw mailing list with people having trouble getting firmware-load-on-bootup working properly.
Three questions.
1) Is it worth supporting those with wireless nics requiring firmware and who also want to mount / via NFS? This requires firmware loading in the initial ram disk.
2) Will Fedora/RHEL be shipping with /lib/firmware directory pre-populated with ipw* firmware?
3) Any idea what's the semantics with hotplug vs /etc/dev.d/? What's the defined interaction? Is it possible for hotplug to trigger but not udev or vice versa?
Dax