On 08/25/2012 12:18 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
Ah, there are no firmwares as part of the kmod-compat-wireless package
- it just provides the drivers.
We do now have a firmware package that will provide these files for you:
http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/bcm43xx-firmware-0.0-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
Question - we can make the firmwares packages a dependency of the
kmod-compat-wireless package so when one installs kmod-compat-wireless
it will also pull in all the firmwares, but this will literally pull
in *all* firmwares, not just the firmware for your specific device.
We were planning to do this, but haven't done it yet. Good idea or
not? The plus side is you hopefully get the required firmware
automatically installed. The downside is you get a bunch of files
installed on your system that aren't in any way relevant to your system.
If the size on disk is not "too big", I say do it. People expect things
to work automagically.
We took the same approach for the CentOS minimal.iso: all the packages
that provide support for hardware susceptible to be used on a server (
ex: Wi-Fi is excluded but aacraid, Brocade & FCOE support is included )
get installed even if a few of them would not be needed for that
specific server.
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