A complete kernel-firmware package
Posted: 11 Jan 2013, 05:05
Today I was disappointed to be unable to boot porteus on a Dell blade server; the problem was that the bnx2 driver did not recognize the old Broadcom NICs within the blade. I tried to compile a new driver using Broadcoms sources, but it would not compile even though I downloaded the kernel source module.
I'm realizing that most of these problems seem to stem from (understandably) very incomplete kernel firmware in Porteus. For Porteus 1.1, I seem to remember that a kernel-firmware module was released. Could that be provided for Porteus 1.2 and Porteus 2.0 as well? Maybe I just need to look at the package manager again... I may have missed something.
Thanks for any help you can provide! I'm on a deadline and was hoping to use Porteus as my solution. ;-)
--fondfire
I'm realizing that most of these problems seem to stem from (understandably) very incomplete kernel firmware in Porteus. For Porteus 1.1, I seem to remember that a kernel-firmware module was released. Could that be provided for Porteus 1.2 and Porteus 2.0 as well? Maybe I just need to look at the package manager again... I may have missed something.
Thanks for any help you can provide! I'm on a deadline and was hoping to use Porteus as my solution. ;-)
--fondfire