Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] compiling wireless drivers
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 16:57 +0000, Brian C. Lane wrote:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:25:20AM -0500, wbsec.flive(a)new.rr.com
wrote:
> I use a USB with Fedora 14 to boot various different Windows computers. The USB is
created from a live CD. Sometimes I run into the problem of the wireless card not working.
Usually it is because I need the correct driver for that particular brand of wireless
card. My current fix for this, is to build a USB with persistence, boot it up and compile
the driver on the USB. I would like to make a USB more compatible with the different
brands of wireless cards. Does anyone know of a way to compile the drivers before I burn
the live CD?
Are the wireless drivers included in Fedora or one of the related
repositories like rpmfusion? You could make a new livecd that adds those
drivers, from whatever source, by adding a new repo line and the driver
name to the %package section of the livecd's kickstart.
This is what I do, and it works well. The main one to grab is
broadcom-wl, along with either kmod-wl or akmod-wl. Adding akmod-wl is
slightly more flexible because it builds the kernel module itself, so it
doesn't run into problems if Fedora has a new kernel but rpmfusion is
behind the times, but it does pull in some other packages along with it.
(It also needs the quick hack I suggested recently in a different thread
to make sure that livecd-creator doesn't try to compress the live image
before akmods has finished building the module.)
James
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