From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] help needed with realtek gigabit network adapter
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:44:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111121134405.02151918@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321879312.2085.18.camel@sven>
Le Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:41:52 +0100,
Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com> a ?crit :
> If this device requires firmware to be uploaded, then you most
> probably need to have udev running. The udev daemon should then take
> care of uploading the firmware when the module is loaded.
Note that Busybox mdev is also capable of pushing firmwares to the
kernel. FEATURE_MDEV_LOAD_FIRMWARE needs to be enabled in the Busybox
configuration, though, and it is not part of the default Busybox
configuration we have in Buildroot, so it requires manual tweaking.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-21 11:32 [Buildroot] help needed with realtek gigabit network adapter Emmanuel BOUAZIZ
2011-11-21 12:41 ` Sven Neumann
2011-11-21 12:44 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2011-11-21 17:36 ` Emmanuel BOUAZIZ
2011-11-21 18:10 ` Michael S. Zick
2011-11-21 20:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-22 10:28 ` Emmanuel BOUAZIZ
2011-11-22 11:44 ` Trevor Woerner
2011-11-23 9:24 ` Emmanuel BOUAZIZ
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