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I am trying to get a MultiModem GPRS Modem to work on a 2.6.12 kernel with Slackware 10.2. There is a hotplug script (placed in /etc/hotplug.d/usb/) with the installation and it appears to be called and the module (ti_usb_3410_5052.ko) is loaded into the kernel when the device is plugged in, but there is an error at some point when loading the module resulting in the following error (dmesg):
usb1-6: ti_reqest_and_download_firmware - no firmware image found
I traced through the ti_usb_3410_5052.c driver and found that the call to request_firmware() returns an error value of -5. request_firmware() is located in the module firmware_class.ko. I think it may be failing on call to "kobject_hotplug(&class_dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);" in firmware_class.c -- but I'm not 100% sure.
I have tried placing the firmware files in both:
/lib/firmware
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
Neither location has solved the problem.
Any insight would be very very much appreciated. Thanks, Kevin.
YOu need to be sure that hotplug firmware loading is enabled in your kernel configuration. Can you post the contents of the script in /etc/hotplug.d/usb for me?
#!/bin/bash
#
# TI 3410/5052 USB Serial Driver Hotplug
#
# Copyright (C) 2004 Texas Instruments
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# For questions or problems with this driver, contact Texas Instruments
# technical support, or Al Borchers <alborchers@steinerpoint.com>, or
# Peter Berger <pberger@brimson.com>.
#
Thanks, I'm working/helping with a hotplug.d hook such as this and wanted to see what another implementation of it looked like. I've only seen one other example, besides what I worked out.
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