[elrepo] [elrepo-devel] Broken kmod-compat-wireless package

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 08/25/2012 04:50 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 25/08/12 01:58, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 08/25/2012 12:18 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>> Ah, there are no firmwares as part of the kmod-compat-wireless package
>>> - it just provides the drivers.
>>>
>>> We do now have a firmware package that will provide these files for 
>>> you:
>>>
>>> http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/bcm43xx-firmware-0.0-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Question - we can make the firmwares packages a dependency of the
>>> kmod-compat-wireless package so when one installs kmod-compat-wireless
>>> it will also pull in all the firmwares, but this will literally pull
>>> in *all* firmwares, not just the firmware for your specific device.
>>>
>>> We were planning to do this, but haven't done it yet. Good idea or
>>> not? The plus side is you hopefully get the required firmware
>>> automatically installed. The downside is you get a bunch of files
>>> installed on your system that aren't in any way relevant to your 
>>> system.
>>>
>>
>> If the size on disk is not "too big", I say do it. People expect things
>> to work automagically.
> The size shouldn't be overly large as firmware are generally small in 
> size and many of them are probably already installed on end users 
> systems (see below).
So go for it , unless there is another reason not to.


>
> I put together a virtual package for compat-wireless-firmware that 
> pulls in all the distro firmware packages plus any additional firmware 
> packages we have packaged:
Hum.. shouldn't the distro firmware packages work with distro's drivers 
? Or do we have cases where the stock drivers are superseded by elrepo 
packages but the firmware remains needed ?



     wolfy