From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797984C8109B for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:28:34 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 3D2061660315; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:28:29 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964A2166030E; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:28:28 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4D3443FC.5060201@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:28:28 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lock References: <4D32E4D2.5030002@mlbassoc.com> <1295256226.2321.1.camel@scimitar> <4D343BB7.4050404@mlbassoc.com> <1295269851.6501.2.camel@scimitar> In-Reply-To: <1295269851.6501.2.camel@scimitar> Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org 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 13:28:34 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------