atmel firmware for wireless card on thinkpad t23

[chopper]

Hi guys,

I have jsut installed TC on a thinkpad T23. When I do:

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ifconfig eth1 up
I get a message about File or Directory Not Found.

Looking at dmesg it seems it cant find the firmware files. I have got the firmware files from my zenwalk installation on the same computer, they live in /lib/firmware/atmel___2asdgf43r863t4f7gwasdferfgf7g57fqg54rf9___.bin on there.

Im not sure where I need to put them on TinyCore so that they will be loaded when the wireless interface is started.

Many thanks.

[Juanito]

I have got the firmware files from my zenwalk installation on the same computer, they live in /lib/firmware/atmel___2asdgf43r863t4f7gwasdferfgf7g57fqg54rf9___.bin on there.

You can put them in either the same place or in /usr/local/the same place

[chopper]

Hi Juanito, many thanks, putting them in /lib/firmware has worked.

Ive got a file called net.sh that I run from bootlocal.sh to bring the network up etc. I have now put a couple of lines to copy the files from /my/hard/drive/atmel_whatever.bin to /lib/firmware/ and this seems to work... It should be ok copying them when bootlocal.sh runs shouldnt it ?

[Juanito]

You can copy them using bootlocal.sh, but since the firmware does not change, the best thing to do is to make your own private firmware extension and load it "onboot".

See http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:creating_extensions

[chopper]

Cool & thanks for that link and the help, the .tcz is working