[ltp] ipw2100 firmware hotplug setup on SuSE 9.1 (T40)

[Didrik Pinte]

Le ven 07/05/2004 à 15:06, Tim Prince a écrit :
> I can't find any YaST installation procedure for the ipw2100 
> firmware.  ipw2100 is running, hotplug is running, and I have the firmware 
> file. What do I do with it to have hotplug find it?
> 
> Tim Prince 

In the INSTALL file, there is an explanation of where you need to put
the firmware so that i will be automatically loaded when the module
needs it.

On my R50, after having copied the firmware, I was able to do 

modprobe ipw2100 
and then just configure the eth1 device

I'm running on Debian/Sid. So I could help for any manual installation
of the driver but for SuSE specific things ... I won't be very useful
:-)

Didrik Pinte

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>From the INSTALL file (version 0.42) :

LOADING FIRMWARE VIA HOTPLUG... (new 0.33)
------- ----    --    -      -        -
As of v0.33, the IPW2100 supports loading of firmware via the Linux
firmware 
hotplug capability.  In order to use this, you must enable
CONFIG_FW_LOADER in
your kernel configuration.  In 2.6.x this option is enabled via: 

	Device Drivers -> 
		Generic Driver Options -> 
			Hotplug firmware loading support

In 2.4.x, it can be found here:
	Library Routines ->
		Hotplug firmware loading support

In addition, you will need the Linux hotplug scripts dated later than 
2003_10_07 (if you do not have /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent then you need
to 
upgrade).  

You will also need to have sysfs mounted.  You can do this by adding an
entry
to /etc/fstab similar to this:

none            /sys            sysfs   defaults                0      
0

If the directory /sys does not already exist, you will need to create
it:

# mkdir /sys

You can then mount the sysfs partition via:

# mount -a

You can obtain the latest hotplug scripts via the following link:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679

Once set up, you can copy ipw2100-1.0.fw into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
(you 
may need to create that directory).  When the driver requests the
firmware, 
the hotplug agent will then push the firmware image to it.