On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:44:55PM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Looking at Axel's repository, it's got alot more drivers than just
> the intel firmware.  Now that he's ported it to RHEL 3 and 4 (thank
> you very much Axel) we're going to mirror his repo over on
> ftp.scientificlinux.org, and make it so you just install this (and
> hopefully other drivers) easily with yum or apt.

You're welcome!

You can already use apt/yum against ATrpms, e.g.

SL4/i386 apt:
rpm http://apt.atrpms.net rhel/4/en/i386 at-stable

SL3/x86_64 yum:
[atrpms]
name=Scientific Linux 3 - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/rhel/3/en/$basearch/at-stable

If you want to install kernel modules (aka updated ipw2200 drivers
etc.) you need to tell apt/yum for which kernel, e.g.

apt/yum install ipw2200-kmdl-`uname -r` ipw2200
apt/yum install nvidia-graphics7664-kmdl-`uname -r` nvidia-graphics7664

etc., otherwise apt/yum will pick a random kernel to satisfy the
dependencies.

> Troy
> 
> p.s. This will probrubly take a couple days to setup, so don't go 
> rushing to the ftp server right now.
> 
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:37:26AM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >
> >For ipw2x00 firmwares: If you package the firmware according to the
> >license (include the license where the firmware files are deposited)
> >there is nothing wrong with shipping it, i.e. it becomes freely
> >distributable. IANAL, but I asked Intel on this and they clarified it
> >accordingly. It was also recently discussed on the list with the same
> >conclusion.
> >
> >You can pick-up the packages at ATrpms and rebuild them (that's what
> >RHEL4 did), or create a new package that will copy over LICENSE to
> >/lib/firmware/ipw2200-LICENSE.txt
> >
> >See also
> >
> >http://dl.atrpms.net/production/sources/common/atrpms/ipw2200-firmware-2.2.spec
> >http://dl.atrpms.net/testing/sources/common/atrpms/ipw2200-firmware.spec
> >
> >(the latter is for ipw2200 >= 1.0.4. 1.0.x where x != 0 are the
> >interim development releases of ipw2200).
> >
> >If you pick up the ATrpms' packages and want to trim anything
> >non-SL4 releated, just remove the creation of the compatibility
> >symlinks (that are needed for older hotplug/firmware loading
> >mechanisms).
> >
> >
> >>-Connie Sieh
> >>
> >>On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shane Canon wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hash: SHA1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>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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> >
> 
> 

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