No Wifi with Custom Kernel

[Ylan Segal]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 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.

Thanks... I check tonight what firmware files are on both kernels and
take it from there. I don't know that much about the kernel, so I
appreciate the nudges in the right direction.

Are firmware files something that builds with the kernel? Do they come
in their own separate package? Is there somewhere I can read about this
instead of asking (probably the wrong) questions around here?

Thanks,

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Ylan

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