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On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 01/17/2011 02:23 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't see anywhere that linux-firmware-sd8686 is included in
> an image.  Am I missing something?

You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre