Thanks, unfortunately I was hoping to stick with a generic kernel
because though I know how to build a standard kernel, I'm not sure how
to build what used to be known as a "BOOT" kernel.
It looks worse than this though, from what I can see I need "udev"
user-space hotplug support to load firmware. That means among other
things getting "udevd" to start at boot. I highly doubt any of that is
encoded in the standard kickstart image and may be a bear to get in. I
can't seem to find any examples of someone using "udevd" in kickstart
either...
Fun, fun, fun.
Thanks again,
- Matt
Caetano, Greg wrote:
Matt:
From the ipw2200 install document:
MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLLOWING CAPABILITIES ARE ENABLED:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#define CONFIG_FW_LOADER 1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ipw2200 loads firmware via the Linux firmware hotplug capability (see
later
section on firmware loading). In 2.6.x, this is enabled via menuconfig:
Device Drivers ->
Generic Driver Options ->
Hotplug firmware loading support
Greg Caetano
HP TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering
Chicago, IL
greg.caetano@xxxxxx
Red Hat Certified Engineer
RHCE#803004972711193
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Subject: Loading device firmware in kickstart
Hi all,
We've built a kickstart image (initrd.img) with custom modules to
support the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless card (it uses the
"ipw2200" module). As we've had experience with this before, getting the
module itself to load wasn't too hard, however in order for the card to
work it needs to load a firmware image as well. We believe that part is
failing.
What I've tried to do is put the firmware files in the same spot under
the "initrd" image as on a normal multi-user system, namely
"/lib/firmware". However as best as we can tell this isn't working.
We are going to try "/etc/firmware" as well, however I thought someone
might have had some experience with this before, so I am trying this
list. Does someone have some advice here?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
- Matt
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