On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 08:40 -0500, David P. Reed wrote:
> 1) I will try your one-line fix and see if it works in my system, and if
> not, tell you why not. And what does work.
OK
> 2) hotplug may work well, but as delivered in FC4 its *proper* use is
> completely indecipherable to me, as a 30 years systems programmer who is
> familiar with lots of OS's but not deeply familiar with Linux kernel.
Just generate orinoco_ezusb_fw using get_symbol_fw and copy it
to /lib/firmware/
> (I've read the doc for hotplug and udev, but... it's thin gruel). I
> really want to use it, but frankly, there are no HOWTO's that
> specifically help with figuring out what rules to install for the case
> of a class of USB devices like the orinoco usb stuff.
This should work out-of-box on any properly configured distribution.
Drivers are loaded automatically for every detected USB device.
> As a pragmatic
> guy, I've continued to include the firmware in the driver, not because
> it is elegant, but because I struggled long enough with it and that
> works. The udev guys (like the SELinux guys) need to think about
> user-friendliness a whole lot more, and bells and whistles a whole lot
> less. If I had more time, I'd invest some time in that.
That's completely separate from the USB issue. Firmware is requested by
the driver, and it doesn't matter what driver it is.
FC4 uses hotplug for firmware, not udev.
I'm not sure your comment about user friendliness is applicable. udev
has lots of documentation. The documentation is not targeted for end
users because udev is not supposed to be tweaked by the end users.
> 3) If you need a tester for your new _usb stuff, please let me know when
> you need it tried. On that machine (Compaq Evo 620c) I run FC4 updated
> to the latest update (2.6.14 kernel), but I try not to build my own
> version of each kernel release, on that machine (I do kernel builds on
> others). It has a Compaq W200 adapter.
Any "new USB stuff" is not likely to appear soon. Most work on
orinoco-usb is just keeping it working and synchronized with other
drivers.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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