[Prism54-users] Loading firmware isl3890 for WG511 v1 fails

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:50:02PM +0200, Benjamin Peter wrote:
> Hi list,

> I have a problem getting my Netgear WG511 card to work
> again. (It worked some time ago)

> When running 'ifconfig eth1 up' I get
> 	SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

[trim]

> When I want to run it manualy with:
> $ export ACTION=add DEVPATH=bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0 FIRMWARE=isl3890
> $ hotplug firmware

> I sent my firmware.agent as atachement.

> I get the following:
> 	/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent: line 45: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/loading: Permission denied
> 	cp: cannot create regular file `/sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/data': Permission denied
> 	/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent: line 47: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0/loading: Permission denied

> and actually there is no "loading"
> $ ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/prism54/0000:03:00.0
> 	bus    config  driver  local_cpus  power     resource0         subsystem_vendor
> 	class  device  irq     modalias    resource  subsystem_device  vendor

You'd need to be root for this, and I think 'loading' and 'data' only
exist during the request_firmware call.... You could modify your hotplug
firmware agent to log stderr from these three commands, and see what
happens...

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