FC2: Question about hotplugging

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

Hi, I have a laptop with an Intel Pro Wireless mini-PCI card and I
installed the IPW2100 driver and I can do a modprobe ipw2100 and it
loads the module and the firmware but when I boot the laptop the module
gets loaded automatically but it can't find the firmware. After Fedora
is done booting I can do an rmmod ipw2100 and then a modprobe ipw2100
and the module will load and it will find and load the firmware. I asked
on the IPW2100-devel list and someone suggested to me that maybe it was
because the modules gets loaded before fedora starts hotplugging. I just
looked at the init scripts and hotplug seems to start in the rc.sysinit
so obviously it should start before networking. Is there a way I could
make sure hotplugging gets started earlier than the networking in the
boot process? Anybody had a similar problem?

Jean-Rene Cormier