On Friday 01 December 2006 16:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 1 Dec, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 01 December 2006 07:31, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, I desparately need help! > >> > >> I have upgraded from udev-087-r1 to udev-103 (and from baselayout-1.12.5 > >> to 1.12.6) > >> > >> At rebooting (I have a speedtouch usb ADSL device) I get > >> speedtch_find_firmware: no stage 1 firmware found > >> (This is obviously a message from the speedtouch kernel > >> module) > >> > >> Yes, speedtouch has to upload firmware to the device before > >> I can use it. This has worked just fine before my upgrade to > >> the new udev. > >> And I've checked that the firmware is (still) in /lib/firmware. > >> I've even reinstalled net-dialup/speedtouch-usb and net-dialup/ppp > >> but nothing helps. > >> I couldn't find anything in the Changelogs. > >> I haven't changed my kernel (still 2.6.17-r8) > > > > I'm afraid I can't help with this problem, but it seems to me that udev > > is not as effective as coldplug was in bringing up devices at boot time. > > Not sure if this is something to do with launch timing of udev and the > > device driver(s) during boot, but my USB devices won't be picked up at > > boot since I updated to udev-103. No problem with detection of USB > > devices *after* the boot sequence has been completed. I am still looking > > for a solution to fix this . . . > > On a Gentoo Forum I've just found this (which works for me) > On a 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 linux, simply unmerge coldplug, hotplug, hotplug-base > and udev (yes, udev!). Then remove the /etc/hotplug, /etc/hotplug.d and > /etc/udev directories. > > This being done, emerge udev again. This way you'll get hotplug-base > emerged too. > > Of course, check that you have /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin and > /lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin. Udev attempts first > /lib/firmware/speedtch-N.bin.V.RR where V.RR is the hardware version and > release of the speedtouch modem. Mine is 4.00, so I have > /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin.4.00 and /lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin.4.00. > But this is not mandatory. > > And please use rc-update to remove any boot- and default-time startup of > the coldplug and hotplug scripts (you may even remove /etc/init.d/coldplug > and /etc/init.d/hotplug just in case: they are not removed by emerge > --unmerge).
I'm not the OP, so his/her needs may differ. However, following the above suggestions (except for the modem) and straight after running emerge --update world wants to pull in hotplug: ========================================= # emerge -uptDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [nomerge ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.14 USE="alsa arts dvdr encode ffmpeg flac hal kde mp3 vorbis -css -debug -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -vcd -xinerama" [nomerge ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.7-r3 USE="acpi crypt pcmcia -debug -dmi -doc (-selinux)" [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r2 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB ========================================= -- Regards, Mick
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