Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon as the device is detected on the USB port?
At this point I have to use fxload manually each time I boot. Le May 4, 2004 01:18 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar a �crit : > On May 3, 2004 23:03, Marc Lijour wrote: > ... > > > > > I have a bacpack (MIcrosolution) cdwriter. It was working in 9.2. > > > > I used to insmod the following modules in this order to have it > > > > working: bpck6 (driver) > > > > pcd (parallel port connection, which is used to connect the cdwriter) > > > > pg (scsi emulation) > > > > > > > > Then I could see it with cdrecord -scanbus, mount it, and use it. > > > > > > > > > > > > With 10.0 it does not work this way. > > > > My loaded modules are: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > ----------- end ------------------- > > > > > > > > Please, I would need some help to make it work with kernel 2.6. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Marc > > > > > > Hey, a fellow backpacker! I'm using the USB interface, though, so it > > > might be different with the parallel port. > > > > > > I downloaded the driver from: > > > > > > http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/index3.html > > > > > > I started with 10.0 CE and never did get it working there. Hoped 10.0 > > > Official would fix the problem but it didn't. > > > > > > After a lot of mucking around, I discovered that the fxload program is > > > missing from the Mandrake 10 distro, even though it's part of the > > > Linux Hotplug project on SourceForge. This program is responsible for > > > downloading new firmware to the drive to make it talk to Linux > > > properly. > > > > > > Check in /var/log/messages to see if there's a message saying that > > > fxload is missing. If so, download it from: > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679 > > > > Nice to meet you. Not many of us around here! > > Yeah, maybe that's why they don't bother to include fxload on the CDs. > > > I found it on the Mandrake mirrors: > > <http://gulus.usherb.ca/pub/distro/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/contrib/i586/ > >fx load-2002_04_11-2mdk.i586.rpm> > > > > My question would be, where does your drive appear in /dev? How do you > > mount it? And then, why does it stopped working for me with the parallel > > port.. > > ... > > Mine appeared as /dev/scd0, which is a link to > scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd (I sent a message the other day about these > device assignments, because they don't match with what the various cd > writing programs expect, and I'm not sure what to do about this; haven't > seen any replies though). > > I don't have to mount or unmount it. With hotplug working, the device > appears when I plug it in, and disappears when I unplug it. When I insert a > cd, magicdev takes over to automount it for me. > > But this is all through the USB interface. I didn't try the parallel port > (though if I get the time I might, as I have more USB devices than I have > available ports, and my parallel port is empty). Have you tried it through > USB? > > I never used Mandrake 9, so I don't know what changed to break this. But it > seems from the messages on this list that quite a few things broke from 9 > to 10. I don't know whether that's issues with the new kernel or what the > story is.
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