[Buildroot] help needed with realtek gigabit network adapter

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 21 12:44:05 UTC 2011


Le Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:41:52 +0100,
Sven Neumann <s.neumann at raumfeld.com> a écrit :

> If this device requires firmware to be uploaded, then you most
> probably need to have udev running. The udev daemon should then take
> care of uploading the firmware when the module is loaded.

Note that Busybox mdev is also capable of pushing firmwares to the
kernel. FEATURE_MDEV_LOAD_FIRMWARE needs to be enabled in the Busybox
configuration, though, and it is not part of the default Busybox
configuration we have in Buildroot, so it requires manual tweaking.

Thomas
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