Matt Fahrner wrote:
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.
If you want this working during the install, I am not surprised what you
do doesn't work.
I'm assuming you are booting local media, USB disk, CD or similar.
What I would do is explore what the existing scripts do for an installed
system, and write and equivalent script to run in %pre.
It's a couple of years or more since I looked at this, but as I recall
it's fairly simple:
echo something>somehere to say you want firmware loaded.
cat firmware >somewhereelse
echo somethingelse >somewhere to say firmware loading's done.
The trick is in finding out what to plop where. You don't really need
all that general-purpose hardware detection stuff.
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Cheers
John
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