[poky] Kernel firmware?

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/17/2011 06:10 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 05:53 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 01/17/2011 02:23 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>>> Hi Gary,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 05:30 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to get various USB WiFi dongles working on my
>>>> BeagleBoard (or look-alike).  Many of these require runtime
>>>> downloads of firmware.  However, these files don't seem to
>>>> be installed in Poky:
>>>>      phy1 ->   rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt73.bin'.
>>>>      rt73usb 2-1.2.4:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
>>>>      phy1 ->   rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some way to enable this?
>>>
>>> There's a linux-firmware recipe
>>> (meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb) which you'll
>>> have to modify to package the required firmware (at the moment we only
>>> package firmware for the Libertas sd8686) and ensure that the packages
>>> are included in your images.
>>
>> I don't see anywhere that linux-firmware-sd8686 is included in
>> an image.  Am I missing something?
>
> You need to have something pull in the required linux-firmware, for
> example the igep0020 and igep0030 machines add linux-firmware-sd8686 to
> the MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS.

Thanks.  Doing it this way wasn't totally clear from "ensure that the
packages are included in your images."

It's working now.

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