[Discuss] environment variables in debian [discuss list mail delay]

[p.willis at telus.net]

The other email on this topic is the
relevant one. This one appeared not to send
so I edited and sent again another way.

Incidentally, this particular email took
some 30 minutes to get through, whereas 
the other one took only seconds.

Peter

pw wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a driver that requires me to set a global environment
> variable to point to a directory with firmware for the
> PCI card.
> 
> The trouble is that, during boot, Debian does not appear to use
> the environment variables from '/etc/environment'.
> 
> *Where* can I set environment system wide variables that can be used
> as drivers are loading during hardware discovery at boot?
> 
> Where do I set global system environment variables at all in a
> standard way on Debian?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter