Rick Bilonick wrote: > 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. > One way would be to have the firmware on a flash drive. Then, after you boot, ether copy the firmware to /lib/firmware, or create a symlink to it. (I don't know off hand the firmware name.) ln -s <path to firmware/firmware name> /lib/firmware/ Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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