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I did some googleing on what Udev really is and what it's supposed
to do for you & this is the wiki-explananation of it:<br>
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<b>"udev</b> is the device manager for the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" title="Linux
kernel">Linux kernel</a>. Primarily, it manages <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_node" title="Device
node" class="mw-redirect">device nodes</a> in <tt><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard"
title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard">/dev</a></tt>. It is the
successor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devfs"
title="Devfs" class="mw-redirect">devfs</a> and hotplug, which
means that it handles the <tt>/dev</tt> directory and all <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space" title="User space">user
space</a> actions when adding/removing devices, including <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware" title="Firmware">firmware</a>
load."<br>
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Now to my question.......<br>
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If udev loads firmware, why does it not assign my Atheros
AR5001-cardmodule ath5k to something?<br>
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I checked during the boot of any installation from tty using lsmod
& seeing that the module is indeed loaded, BUT it's not used by
something.<br>
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/Kristoffer<br>
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