On 08/25/2012 04:50 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
On 25/08/12 01:58, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
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.
The size shouldn't be overly large as firmware are generally small in
size and many of them are probably already installed on end users
systems (see below).
So go for it , unless there is another reason not to.
I put together a virtual package for compat-wireless-firmware that
pulls in all the distro firmware packages plus any additional firmware
packages we have packaged:
Hum.. shouldn't the distro firmware packages work with distro's drivers
? Or do we have cases where the stock drivers are superseded by elrepo
packages but the firmware remains needed ?
wolfy
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