This sounds like a good solution if I have a repository to get the RPMs from. What should
I do if I cannot find the RPMs but have a tar file? For example, I have not found any RPMs
for Realtek drivers but can download the tar files from the Realtek site. How do I compile
this before I burn the live CD?
---- James Heather <j.heather(a)surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 16:57 +0000, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:25:20AM -0500, wbsec.flive(a)new.rr.com wrote:
> > I use a USB with Fedora 14 to boot various different Windows computers. The USB
is created from a live CD. Sometimes I run into the problem of the wireless card not
working. Usually it is because I need the correct driver for that particular brand of
wireless card. My current fix for this, is to build a USB with persistence, boot it up and
compile the driver on the USB. I would like to make a USB more compatible with the
different brands of wireless cards. Does anyone know of a way to compile the drivers
before I burn the live CD?
>
> Are the wireless drivers included in Fedora or one of the related
> repositories like rpmfusion? You could make a new livecd that adds those
> drivers, from whatever source, by adding a new repo line and the driver
> name to the %package section of the livecd's kickstart.
This is what I do, and it works well. The main one to grab is
broadcom-wl, along with either kmod-wl or akmod-wl. Adding akmod-wl is
slightly more flexible because it builds the kernel module itself, so it
doesn't run into problems if Fedora has a new kernel but rpmfusion is
behind the times, but it does pull in some other packages along with it.
(It also needs the quick hack I suggested recently in a different thread
to make sure that livecd-creator doesn't try to compress the live image
before akmods has finished building the module.)
James