This sounds like a good solution if I have a repository to get the RPMs from. What should I do if I cannot find the RPMs but have a tar file? For example, I have not found any RPMs for Realtek drivers but can download the tar files from the Realtek site. How do I compile this before I burn the live CD? ---- James Heather <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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