Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 14, 2014, at 10:29 PM, Armin K. wrote: >>> Some firmware is shipped in the kernel tree. Yeah make firmware_install What's next? Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above i

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: > On 03/15/2014 02:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Armin K. wrote: >>> 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 >>

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Armin K.
On 03/15/2014 02:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: >> 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 the

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 14, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > At least one of my nics wants the firmware (I've seen error > messages when booting without it), but it seemed to work fine > without it! I suspect it maybe had an old version. > > ĸen I have an old Pentium 3 system with a Tyan Thunder LE board an

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 01:49:54AM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > 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

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: > 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'

[lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Armin K.
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

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and trying to > evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. > > What I've done is to copy the alfs repository to anduin and work with > that copy. > git clone git://git.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs.git > > Afte