Hi There First off, thanks for ltsp, I use it very much at home, making all my terminals noiseless (passive everything).
I have recently bought myself 54Mbit WLAN equipment and while patching a 2.4 kernel with the prims54 driver was a very easy thing to do, I could not boot from this kernel (loaded from the harddrive anyway, theres no bootprom for it either). The reason was that the prism GT chip needs firmware in order to operate. Being 96kb large this firmware is _not_ inkluded in the kernel but are supposed to be loaded via the hotplug system. I experimented getting hotplug support into the ltsp-initrd image, but failed for unknown reasons (probably because the hotplug scripts normally uses bash, but initrd contains ash instead, and I'm not that great at ash/bash differences). After having spent a day on it I took the easy route: rewrote the prism54 driver to inklude the firmware and enlarged the kernel with 96kb. While this works flawlessly it is not optimal (1/8 of my kernelsize is firmware!) So, I would like to put a very polite request up for hotplug support in the initrd system so that devices need for booting which requires firmware also is supported. Having a newborn baby I havn't got the time to do it myself at the moment, but maybe later. Thanks for your effort on ltsp so far, it really rocks having silent computing at home! Regards Thomas (writing this from an asus s8200 laptop running ltsp-4 booted from a prism54 card ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
