Re: update loses prism54 firmware

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 23:36:02 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> I did an upgrade of my testing install today and everything went 
> basically smoothly (a goof up on my part caused the xorg upgrade to fail 
> a couple of times, but I figured it out).
> 
> One thing that wasn't expected was that my wireless card stopped 
> working.  /var/log/syslog was complaining that the firmware wasn't 
> getting loaded, and sure enough the upgrade seems to have removed the 
> firmware file.
> 
> I was able to download a new copy and placed it in 
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and everything is working again.  But is this 
> the right spot, now that I'm running udev instead of hotplug?  I'd like 
> to get this into the "right" spot so that a future upgrade doesn't toss 
> the file again.

I think the recommended directory is now /lib/firmware.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian