[Prism54-users] Help: SMC2802W - firmware loading fails, eth0 does not start

[Milan Zimmermann]

Jens,

Thanks for your help again. By putting some echos into firmware.agent (it is 
executable) I found it is never called ...  would you know who should be 
calling it and what can be the reason it is not hapennig?

Milan

On January 15, 2004 02:17 pm, Jens Maurer wrote:
> Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > I'd like to get some suggestion on how to debug this problem, for
> > example, can I put some echos inside the firmware.agent and see what the
> > $DEVPATH and $FIRMWARE are set to?  Where do they come from when
> > firmware.agent is executed? If I set the DEBUG=yes, where is the output
> > going to be?
>
> All the hotplug stuff are simple shell scripts, so you can put in
> "echo" statements as much as you please.  To circumvent any potential
> issues with syslog etc., I'd recommend doing it so
>    echo "hello I'm here" >> /tmp/mylog
>
> This will put the stuff in /tmp/mylog, which is the most direct
> way you'll get debugging info out of the script.
>
> Make a backup copy before changing any script, and then hack
> away until you find out the control flow in your specific
> case.  And where it fails the firmware loading.
>
> Jens Maurer