Re: Error: firmware not found

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com>]

Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it> writes:

> > > This is not good because some cards (in my case the Layla3G and
> > > the Gina3G) have the same PCI card, but different external
> > > module.
> > 
> > you mean that you've one of this card and that hotplug loads the
> > wrong module ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > if yes, this is a driver bug indeed.
> 
> No, it isn't, because those devices use the same PCI card, that is
> the kernel reports the same PCI ID/subID's. The driver has to load
> the firmware and then it asks the DSP what (if any) external box is
> attached. If it is the wrong driver it exits with -ENODEV.

:-(

are these cards rare or not?

b/c this is a big issue for hw auto configuring (eg as we do in
mandrakelinux).

would it be possible to create a snd-echoaudio frontend driver that
would try sub-drivers (gina*, layla*, ...) which would load the
firmware & ask DSP ?

this what they do for some dvb cards.

this would save distro :-)



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