Martin Husemann wrote:

>A sysctl'ble path would work for me (which firmware to load depends on the
>protocol spoken by the local exchange). This gives some interesting rc.d
>ordering issues, but that can be dealt with later.
>  
>
I had a little hack in mind for the ordering problem:
if the firmware file is not found and the system was recently booted
(say less than a minute ago), then the firmware loader will sleep
a little and try again.

    -- Lennart