> > I have noticed that we don't seem to cover firmware installation > anywhere in LFS. The trick is that some modern network cards and most > wireless ones require firmware to function. Radeon cards also require > firmware (most of them does iirc) but we cover that in BLFS. It doesn't > stop there, but I find these 3 cases to be most common ones. > > It would be nice if we included some instructions about firmware in LFS. > > Most of the firmware can be downloaded from kernel.org git repository: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ > > Some firmware is shipped in the kernel tree. > > Thoughts? >
I would recommend that you simply point people to some links, based on the card they have. For e.g. lspci | grep Network gives me: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35) Then you could add something along the lines of: For Intel cards go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi/?n=Downloads#Firmware where you can download the firmware for your card and place it in /lib/firmware. The wireless.kernel.org site includes instructions for telling the kernel where the firmware is located on your machine. jb. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
