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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