From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: firmware hotpluging
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:31:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176481897.4206.21.camel@lov.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461F31E8.5090802@gmail.com>
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:07 -0400, Dave Sampson wrote:
> The bellow output is what udev monitor --env spits back when I plug in
> my PCMCIA card (which essentialy loads the module at the same time). I
> really need to learn more about udev, cause it is a big black box.
You get this event:
UEVENT[1176480087.807781] add@/class/firmware/0000:02:00.0
ACTIONd
DEVPATH=/class/firmware/0000:02:00.0
SUBSYSTEM=firmware
SEQNUM\x1037
FIRMWARE=tiacx100c0D
Do you have that file on your box?:
/lib/firmware/tiacx100c0D
> Furthermore I don't wish to complicate matters but I notice that it
> creates device wlan0.. is there a way to make it create a ethX device. I
> know its a wireless device so that is convention, but the application i
> am trying to get going (kismet) thinks that acx will mount as a
> /dev/ethx. If its an easy answer great, if not then lets focus on the
> firmware first.
Most distros create persistent network names, by writing rules for every
discovered device and assing the same name after reboot. You would just
need to edit the rules file and set a different name.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-13 7:31 firmware hotpluging Dave Sampson
2007-04-13 9:44 ` Kay Sievers
2007-04-13 16:07 ` Dave Sampson
2007-04-13 16:31 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2007-04-13 17:14 ` Dave Sampson
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