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

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Hi,

I running SuSe 9.0 with a Netgear WG511: hotplugging is working ok. What 
I had to do is
to add a 'firmware.agent' to the standard distribution and to enable PCI 
in '/etc/syconfig/hotplug'
which for unknown reason was disabled. Perhaps you check the settings in 
'/etc/syconfig/hotplug'!

I ran the Netgear WG511also under SuSE 8.2 but probably without 
'firmware.agent'. Perhaps
the SuSe 8.2 '/sbin/hotplug' is too old for 'firmware.agent' and an 
update will do!

h



Milan Zimmermann wrote:

>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:
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>
>>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
>>    
>>
>
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