No Wifi with Custom Kernel

[Markus Schönhaber]

Ylan Segal wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> > By default, firmware files on Dapper (with stock kernels) belong
> > into /lib/firmware/<kernel-version>. Try to find out where your custom
> > kernel (or hotplug in combination with this kernel) expects those files
> > and copy them there.
>
> Hmm, wouldn't they be copied when installing the custom kernel? When I
> upgraded to the stock kernel 2.6.15.25 and later to the 2.6.15.25 for
> i686 I didn't have to copy any firmware files. I guess that was done
> automatically by apg-get from the package information.
>
> I am using make-kpkg to create the deb packages and installing those
> like this:
>
> # sudo make-kpkg clean
> # sudo make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-ylan kernel-image
> kernel-headers
> # cd /usr/src
> # sudo dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6...deb (I used actual file name here)
> # sudo dpkg -i kernel-headers-2.6...deb (I used actual file name here)
>
> Shouldn't this be enough to configure anything it needs automatically?

Why don't you simply check for yourself? Since the logs seem to indicate that 
your kernel tries to load the firmware and fails to do so, I'd check whether 
your custom kernel has the same firmware files available as the stock one. If 
it has, you can at least sort this out as possible source of the problem.

Regards
  mks