From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: Joshua Lock <josh@openedhand.com>
Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Kernel firmware?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:28:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3443FC.5060201@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295269851.6501.2.camel@scimitar>
On 01/17/2011 06:10 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> 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.
Thanks. Doing it this way wasn't totally clear from "ensure that the
packages are included in your images."
It's working now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 12:30 Kernel firmware? Gary Thomas
2011-01-17 9:23 ` Joshua Lock
2011-01-17 12:53 ` Gary Thomas
2011-01-17 13:10 ` Joshua Lock
2011-01-17 13:28 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2011-01-17 16:49 ` Gary Thomas
2011-01-18 11:36 ` Gary Thomas
2011-01-18 13:22 ` Joshua Lock
2011-01-18 13:44 ` Gary Thomas
2011-01-18 13:29 ` Koen Kooi
2011-01-18 13:41 ` Gary Thomas
2011-01-18 13:44 ` Koen Kooi
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