From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: During the boot process, hotplug can not load the firmware for my WLAN card (Prism54). Below is the output of dmesg after boot. eth1: resetting device... eth1: uploading firmware... audit(1118949170.105:3): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=2148 comm="firmware.agent" name=isl3890 dev=hda3 ino=6307283 scontext=system_u:system_r:hotplug_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t tclass=file audit(1118949170.105:4): avc: denied { write } for pid=2148 comm="firmware.agent" name=loading dev=sysfs ino=6245 scontext=system_u:system_r:hotplug_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysfs_t tclass=file audit(1118949170.105:5): avc: denied { write } for pid=2148 comm="firmware.agent" name=loading dev=sysfs ino=6245 scontext=system_u:system_r:hotplug_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysfs_t tclass=file prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') eth1: islpci_reset: failure eth1: resetting device... The card gets initialized correctly if it is put in after bootup has completed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hotplug-2004_09_23-7, kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put in WLAN card 2. Power on and boot computer Actual Results: The WLAN card gets detected and initialized. However, the boot process hangs here. Expected Results: The WLAN card should have been initialized and the boot process should continue. Additional info:
Fixed in selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.18-11