On Thursday 19 Dec 2013 15:18:15 the wrote: > On 12/19/13 17:50, Bruce Hill wrote: > > I *believe* if you have the driver built into your kernel: > > CONFIG_IPW2200=y then you need to have the firmware listed with > > these 2 lines: CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="ipw2200-bss.fw" > > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/" (Something similar to > > the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE line. I don't use ipw2200 and that might > > not be the proper way. You said the file is there, you checked, so > > you should know the proper path and syntax.) > > iirc I tried specifying extra firmware but it didn't load.
Have a look at the section "Code Listing 2.10: Enabling external firmware" here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml?part=1&chap=7 Don't forget to recompile and *boot* the newly configured kernel after you do this. -- Regards, Mick
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