Re: [Bluez-users] Compile bluez-bluefw-1.0 fails

Marcel Holtmann
2004-04-19T13:54:59Z

Hi Alex,

> I have hotplug installed, and firmware.agent seems to be present
> in /etc/hotplug. The Gentoo packages I'm using are as follows:
>
> hotplug-20040401
> hotplug-base 20040401
>
> Perhaps this was someone's idea of an April Fool's joke? These seem to
> be the most-recent versions avaliable in Gentoo, even in unstable.

check the path for the firmware files in the firmware.agent script. Is
the script is executable? Is /sys mounted? What are the permissions of
your firmware files?

> Do I need CONFIG_FW_LOADER enabled in the Kernel? The help page states
> it's only needed where no in-kernel-tree modules require hotplug
> firmware loading support, so I figured it didn't apply to the Bluez
> stuff. It's compiled as a module at present, but perhaps this is the
> problem.

You need CONFIG_FW_LOADER, but this should be done automaticly by the
bcm203x driver and lsmod must show you a firmware_class module.

Regards

Marcel