On 01/24/2010 06:18 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:26:10 +0100 drago01 drago01@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Dieter jdieter@gmail.com wrote:
Is there some reason we don't have a iwl5150-firmware package? Or that /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode isn't included in iwl5000-firmware?
Just asking because I was helping someone on #fedora get their Intel 5150ABN working, and it seems that this missing firmware was the reason it wasn't. The firmware is available from http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=downloads.
Seems like indeed nobody packaged it yet.
Maybe John wants to add it to the iwl5000-firmware package so you should ask him (cc'ed) first before actually submitting a package.
why wouldn't this be part of the linux-firmware general "all firmware" package instead?
* Because the kitchen-sink approach to packaging isn't a good one * Because at some point, in a utopian future, we'd like to be able to replace the binary firmware chunks with free-licensed bits * Because we don't want to force everyone to update everytime one piece of firmware updates
Take your pick.
~spot