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 should have made a directory /etc/hotplug and put > > a bunch of *.agent files in there. One of those is firmware.agent. > > First of all: I apologize, as I made a mistake: I build my scratch-system on > the basis of the LFS 6.0-book, wich unfortunately does_not_include the > hotplug system. LFS 6.1 does. So now I first installed hotplug-2004_09_23, > then I created /lib/firmware and I put all ipw-2.4-x.fw files in it. Now at > least I have an /etc/hotplug directory and all the files I was missing. > > However, I still get the error message "ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed:Reason -2" > Following all the instructions, I noticed, that I dont have a sysfs-system > mounted on /sys, although this instruction is included in /etc/fstab. What is > the matter with this ? Could this be the reason for my failure ? > Again, thank you very much for your help, also for Andrew Bentons comments. > Yes, I compiled my driver into the kernel. I installed "hotplug", but not > "firmwarehotplug", does it matter ? > Thanks for hints and wishes for a good week, > Edgar > -- > --------------------- > Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers > Weinheim o.k. I am not that strong a lfs man, but may be this will help ... I use hotplug check if udevd is running (udevd --daemon) check where udev_run_hotplugd and udev_run_devd are make sure you have the udev-config-5.rules installed then check if the place if the place of udev_run_hotplugd and udev_run_devd are right make sure you compiled/installed udev with EXTRAS="extras/firmware extras/run_directory"
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