[Mageia-discuss] Something wrong with the Udev-rules?

[Kristoffer Grundström]

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:

*"udev* is the device manager for the Linux kernel 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel>. Primarily, it manages 
device nodes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_node> in /dev 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard>. It is the 
successor of devfs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devfs> and hotplug, 
which means that it handles the /dev directory and all user space 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space> actions when adding/removing 
devices, including firmware <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware> load."

Now to my question.......

If udev loads firmware, why does it not assign my Atheros 
AR5001-cardmodule ath5k to something?

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.

/Kristoffer
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </pipermail/mageia-discuss/attachments/20111127/a71eedee/attachment.html>