Ubuntu and the Untied Gateway

[John]

This is Sounder 8.

There are my notes captured as I went.
Insert card, buut.
Got to GDM without anything unusual happening.

Logged in as summer, the user who can administer the box.

Looked around for a config tool.
"Device Manager?" Hah!
btw Neither lspci nor device manager know this is a Tekram device,
OTOH fC 2,90 does.

The kernel driver (prism54) is loaded. I'm beginning to think I need to 
be a guru to get this
working.


The guro copied the firmware into place, did the ifconfig eth1 and it 
got loaded. Added an IP
address, and then while fiddling with iwlist found it had joined the 
network.
Kool.

Really should put a DHCP server on the AP.


It went pretty much as I expected. Device Manager looks like a 
quarter-baked good idea; it seems a logical place to hook in graphical 
device configuration, but all it does is diisplay stuff. What a dud.


I do see a problem though, and I think it a serious one. Hotplug on U 
(and FC 2.90) is not LSB-compliant.

Why?
Everything needed to boot has to be in the root fs (or /boot).

It is possible and legitimate to mount /usr ro via NFS so as to share it 
with other systems. This, of course, is difficult if we need 
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware in order to get the network up.