On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:54 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rick Bilonick wrote: > > > > Thanks. I have tried the live CD's/DVD's but I have a bcm4318 network > > card that can use either ndiswrapper or must have Version 4 firmware > > in /lib/firmware for the native driver to work. As far as I can tell, > > this precludes it from working with a live CD or DVD because I can't > > store the firmware in /lib/firmware. > > > Well, you can temporarily store the firmware, but you will lose it > when you reboot. I am not sure exactly how they implement it, but > you can add things temporarily after booting from the CD. You also > have the option of storing the firmware on the hard drive, and > making a link to it after booting the live CD. > > Mikkel > -- I figured that it might be possible to somehow link in the firmware but I have no idea how to do it. That's why I wanted to try a flash drive or USB hard drive given I could easily modify the distribution. (If I were really smart I could spin my own distro with the firmware - but if that were the case I wouldn't be here asking these questions.) Rick B.
