reassign 415383 pcmciautils thanks Hi,
Helmut Grohne wrote: > The firmwares are located at /etc/pcmcia/cis. udev expects firmwares to > be at /lib/firmware and others places, but not /etc/pcmcia/cis. So cards > with firmwares cannot be used using current kernels and udev. Copying > /etc/pcmcia/cis/tamarack.dat to /lib/firmware/tamarack.cis solved my > problem. I'm not sure that this is a pcmcia-cs bug, so please forward > the bug to the package it really applies to. Actually, it is a bug in pcmciautils. Reassigning. > There are basically some ways of fixing this bug: > 1) Moving firmwares to a separate package as they are useful to both > pcmcia-cs (older kernels) and pcmciautils (newer kernels) and place > them correctly. [probably the clean way] > 2) Include firmwares in pcmciautils instead of pcmcia-cs as it depends > that way. [another clean way] I prefer alternative 2. Older kernels won't be supported much longer anyway. pcmcia-cs can still provide firmwares in /etc/pcmcia/cis, but we can place them in pcmciautils as well. > This bug seems to be fixed in recent SuSE packages. So may be a fix > could be inspired there. OK, I will take a look at it. Thank you for reporting this problem! -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
