[Fedora-livecd-list] compiling wireless drivers

[wbsec.flive at new.rr.com]

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 at 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 at 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