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This is something I've noticed SuSE does a better job at.  They
typically include shell scripts that download and install firmware,
fonts, and other funky-licensed stuff.

It would be interesting to construct a similar mechanism and put it in
the contrib area.

- --Shane

Connie Sieh wrote:
> Raymond,
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Raymond Rusk wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>To get the ipw2200 driver included with the 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL kernel to 
>>work on my Dell Latitude D800 laptop, I found that I needed to 
>>download and install into /lib/firmware the following files:
>>
>>ipw2200_boot.fw
>>ipw2200_bss.fw
>>ipw2200_ibss.fw
>>ipw2200_ucode.fw
>>
>>These files are located at 
>>http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php.
>>
>>Are these files not included in the SL 4.0 distribution for licensing 
>>reasons?  The wireless driver can't work without them so it would be 
>>much more convenient to have them included with the SL 4.0 
>>distribution.
> 
> 
> I suspect so.  I read the license and since you have to approve it 
> before installing and since there is no way to do that with the current 
> setup I assume it was not included because of this license.
> 
> 
>>Regards,
>>Raymond
>>
>>PS:  SL 4.0 works very nicely on the Dell D800.  For setting up X on 
>>the 1920x1200 resolution WUXGA LCD display, I found the information at 
>>http://techsounds.orgdotorg.org/linux/d800/ very useful.  Since I am 
>>not particularly concerned with high performance 3D rendering, I have 
>>been using the X server included with SL 4.0 rather than the drivers 
>>at nVIDIA's web site.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks for this update.
> 
> -Connie Sieh
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