Kernel Firmware Loading

[Andrew Benton <b3nt@ukonline.co.uk>]

Hello,
I have a SpeedTouch USB modem and I use the kernel driver. I used to build the speedtch driver into the kernel and with 2.6.14 that worked well. As the system booted it detected the modem, generated a hotplug event and udev called /sbin/firmware_helper to load the firmware into the modem. 


But with the 2.6.14-git2 kernel that no longer works. It seems that the kernel is asking for the firmware before /lib/firmware has been mounted so the process fails. If I build the speedtch driver as a module and modprobe it with a boot script then it works as normal. 


However, I would prefer to be able to build a completely monolithic kernel. Then I can then use the same kernel to boot into several different distros installed on different partitions. If the speedtch driver is compiled as a module I have to remember to copy /lib/modules onto several different partitions every time I recompile the kernel (which is every day).

So what I'd like to know is, is there some command I can use to get the kernel driver to load the firmware? Some way of generating a hotplug event for the modem (without unplugging it) after /lib/firmware has been mounted?

Andy




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