Loading device firmware in kickstart

[Caetano, Greg]

Matt:

>From the ipw2200 install document:

MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLLOWING CAPABILITIES ARE ENABLED:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#define CONFIG_FW_LOADER 1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ipw2200 loads firmware via the Linux firmware hotplug capability (see
later
section on firmware loading).  In 2.6.x, this is enabled via menuconfig:

        Device Drivers ->
                Generic Driver Options ->
                        Hotplug firmware loading support 


Greg Caetano
HP TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering
Chicago, IL
greg.caetano at hp.com
Red Hat Certified Engineer
RHCE#803004972711193

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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matt Fahrner
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:58 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Loading device firmware in kickstart

Hi all,

We've built a kickstart image (initrd.img) with custom modules to
support the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless card (it uses the
"ipw2200" module). As we've had experience with this before, getting the
module itself to load wasn't too hard, however in order for the card to
work it needs to load a firmware image as well. We believe that part is
failing.

What I've tried to do is put the firmware files in the same spot under
the "initrd" image as on a normal multi-user system, namely
"/lib/firmware". However as best as we can tell this isn't working.

We are going to try "/etc/firmware" as well, however I thought someone
might have had some experience with this before, so I am trying this
list. Does someone have some advice here?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

			- Matt

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