G'day Richard, There are to be two wireless devices available for selection by bulk purchasers of XO-4. One is the Marvell Libertas SD 8686 Network Adapter (802.11g), and the other is SD 8787 (802.11n).
Yes, the XO-4 will need a nonfree firmware program copied by the operating system into the wireless device. The firmware program is in the file sd8686_v9.bin in Fedora package linux-firmware, or libertas-sd8686-firmware, or libertas-sd8787-firmware. The 8686 firmware is also in the Debian non-free package firmware-libertas. It is also included within Open Firmware on the SPI FLASH chip inside the laptop. You can copy it from the SPI FLASH to the internal eMMC storage at the firmware prompt: ok copy rom:helper_sd.bin int:\boot\sd8686_helper.bin ok copy rom:sd8686.bin int:\boot\sd8686.bin ok copy rom:mv8787.bin int:\boot\mv8787.bin These steps might be placed in the boot script of the operating system in order to avoid nonfree infection of an operating system distribution. At this stage, there are no other devices built into the XO-4 that require firmware download by the operating system before they can function. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
