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On Friday 01 December 2006 16:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> On 1 Dec, Mick wrote: |
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> > On Friday 01 December 2006 07:31, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> >> Hi, I desparately need help! |
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> >> |
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> >> I have upgraded from udev-087-r1 to udev-103 (and from baselayout-1.12.5 |
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> >> to 1.12.6) |
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> >> |
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> >> At rebooting (I have a speedtouch usb ADSL device) I get |
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> >> speedtch_find_firmware: no stage 1 firmware found |
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> >> (This is obviously a message from the speedtouch kernel |
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> >> module) |
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> >> |
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> >> Yes, speedtouch has to upload firmware to the device before |
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> >> I can use it. This has worked just fine before my upgrade to |
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> >> the new udev. |
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> >> And I've checked that the firmware is (still) in /lib/firmware. |
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> >> I've even reinstalled net-dialup/speedtouch-usb and net-dialup/ppp |
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> >> but nothing helps. |
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> >> I couldn't find anything in the Changelogs. |
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> >> I haven't changed my kernel (still 2.6.17-r8) |
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> > |
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> > I'm afraid I can't help with this problem, but it seems to me that udev |
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> > is not as effective as coldplug was in bringing up devices at boot time. |
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> > Not sure if this is something to do with launch timing of udev and the |
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> > device driver(s) during boot, but my USB devices won't be picked up at |
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> > boot since I updated to udev-103. No problem with detection of USB |
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> > devices *after* the boot sequence has been completed. I am still looking |
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> > for a solution to fix this . . . |
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> |
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> On a Gentoo Forum I've just found this (which works for me) |
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> On a 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 linux, simply unmerge coldplug, hotplug, hotplug-base |
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> and udev (yes, udev!). Then remove the /etc/hotplug, /etc/hotplug.d and |
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> /etc/udev directories. |
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> |
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> This being done, emerge udev again. This way you'll get hotplug-base |
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> emerged too. |
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> |
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> Of course, check that you have /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin and |
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> /lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin. Udev attempts first |
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> /lib/firmware/speedtch-N.bin.V.RR where V.RR is the hardware version and |
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> release of the speedtouch modem. Mine is 4.00, so I have |
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> /lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin.4.00 and /lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin.4.00. |
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> But this is not mandatory. |
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> |
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> And please use rc-update to remove any boot- and default-time startup of |
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> the coldplug and hotplug scripts (you may even remove /etc/init.d/coldplug |
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> and /etc/init.d/hotplug just in case: they are not removed by emerge |
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> --unmerge). |
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I'm not the OP, so his/her needs may differ. However, following the above |
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suggestions (except for the modem) and straight after running emerge --update |
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world wants to pull in hotplug: |
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# emerge -uptDv world |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: |
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Calculating world dependencies... done! |
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[nomerge ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.14 USE="alsa arts dvdr encode ffmpeg flac |
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hal kde mp3 |
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vorbis -css -debug -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -vcd -xinerama" |
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[nomerge ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.7-r3 USE="acpi crypt |
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pcmcia -debug -dmi -doc (-selinux)" |
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[ebuild N ] sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r2 0 kB |
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Total size of downloads: 0 kB |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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