From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pug.o-hand.com (3a.49.1343.static.theplanet.com [67.19.73.58]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8623E4C8109B for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:23:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (5ad4d7b0.bb.sky.com [90.212.215.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pug.o-hand.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A9212EC207 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:04:21 -0600 (CST) From: Joshua Lock To: poky@yoctoproject.org In-Reply-To: <4D32E4D2.5030002@mlbassoc.com> References: <4D32E4D2.5030002@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:23:46 +0000 Message-ID: <1295256226.2321.1.camel@scimitar> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 (2.32.1-1.fc14) Subject: Re: Kernel firmware? X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:23:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Gary, On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 05:30 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote: > I'm trying to get various USB WiFi dongles working on my > BeagleBoard (or look-alike). Many of these require runtime > downloads of firmware. However, these files don't seem to > be installed in Poky: > phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt73.bin'. > rt73usb 2-1.2.4:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin > phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware. > > Is there some way to enable this? There's a linux-firmware recipe (meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb) which you'll have to modify to package the required firmware (at the moment we only package firmware for the Libertas sd8686) and ensure that the packages are included in your images. Cheers, Joshua -- Joshua Lock Intel Open Source Technology Centre