On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 16:57 +0000, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:25:20AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > I use a USB with Fedora 14 to boot various different Windows computers. The > > USB is created from a live CD. Sometimes I run into the problem of the > > wireless card not working. Usually it is because I need the correct driver > > for that particular brand of wireless card. My current fix for this, is to > > build a USB with persistence, boot it up and compile the driver on the USB. > > I would like to make a USB more compatible with the different brands of > > wireless cards. Does anyone know of a way to compile the drivers before I > > burn the live CD? > > Are the wireless drivers included in Fedora or one of the related > repositories like rpmfusion? You could make a new livecd that adds those > drivers, from whatever source, by adding a new repo line and the driver > name to the %package section of the livecd's kickstart.
This is what I do, and it works well. The main one to grab is broadcom-wl, along with either kmod-wl or akmod-wl. Adding akmod-wl is slightly more flexible because it builds the kernel module itself, so it doesn't run into problems if Fedora has a new kernel but rpmfusion is behind the times, but it does pull in some other packages along with it. (It also needs the quick hack I suggested recently in a different thread to make sure that livecd-creator doesn't try to compress the live image before akmods has finished building the module.) James
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