Hello,

> do you have
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
> in your kernel .config?

yes, this option is selected

[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.19.2/ $ cat .config | grep CONFIG_FW_LOADER
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y

>> First, in /etc/init.d/boot there are some lines that starts hotplug2 as 
>> a daemon at boot time;
>> /sbin/hotplug2 --persistent --max-children 1 &
> 
> It could be initialized too late.  For example, the hotplug events
> could occur before the root filesystem is mounted (in which case
> you need to setup your initrd or whatever to handle this).

I don't know what to say about this.

About "/sys$DEVPATH/loading", I took a closer look at "/sys" and it's 
completely empty. There is no file or directory. What does this mean?

>> I guess these rules should be responsible for loading the firmware, but 
>> I don't see how they are doing it. I'm inexperienced with both udev and 
>> hotplug2, so I don't know how these rules should look like.
> 
> They're not doing it.  Nowadays firmware loading is mostly done by
> udev calling firmware_helper.

I guess there should be a similar application for the hotplug2 
configuration. Maybe somebody more experienced with hotplug2 can drop a 
line about this.

Thank you for your answer,
Radu.

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