I found that "the upstream vendor" includes this firmware on their 
"extras" cd.  The "extras" cd contains "licensed" software such as Java 
and flashplayer .

I think it would be good if we got some of these wrapper scripts.  I have 
been discussing the idea with Troy.  Just need to have some make them or 
"borrow" the SuSE ones.

-Connie Sieh

 On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shane Canon wrote:

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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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