[Prism54-users] firmware loader

[S. Anderson]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:07:42AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> FYI,
> 
> >From now on if prism54 (CONFIG_PRISM54) driver is selected, Firmware
> loader (CONFIG_FW_LOADER) will automatically be loaded as a module for
> you, just in case you forget. This goes for 2.4 and 2.6. This just has
> been a common problem. Might as well do it.
> 
> If you are having firmware related problems, make sure you have the
> scripts/package that supports this for your specific distribution. I've
> heard Gentoo and Slackware don't have it. Debian has one, but it's in
> unstable. It goes by the "hotplug" package.
> 
> For those of you who don't have it:
> http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/hotplug.tar.gz
> 

heres how I got the firmware agent for gentoo linux, in case anyone is
interested:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge sys-apps/hotplug
got firmware.agent from here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5625250
and put it here:
/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
then
chmod a+x /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent

then you should be good to go...

have fun,
sa

P.S. Im going to go file a gentoo bug report now, I would be great if anyone 
else without a firmware.agent distro could file a bug report to your
distro too.