After noting on the ipw2100 mailinglist that Gentoo LiveCD's contain a driver, but no firmware for the Intel cards due to an (unfounded) question about the license, I received a mail from the primary author clarifying the situation. "distribution of the firmware image is fine provided that the LICENSE is included in the same directory location on the CD that the firmware file is installed. If you know what the specific concern was with the license, or if you have a suggestion for how it could be clarified to resolve the concern, please let me know" Please review the license and include the firmware in future LiveCD's.
The package will need to be marked stable on any arch that it is intended to go onto the livecd for... if you want this added, file a bug for the package to go stable and make this bug depend on it. Also, I don't think we are providing an ipw2100 driver either, so that would need to be added, too. I am marking this as a blocker of the ipw2200 bug, since they cannot both exist on the same system due to incompatable modules created.
Where does the firmware go for this package? Does the ebuild download it and take care of it automatically or do I need to do something to get the firmware in its proper place?
The ipw2100 ebuild takes care of downloading and installing the firmware. It is placed in /lib/firmware and symlinks are placed in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
Err... correction: the latest stable ipw2100-0.54.ebuild only installs firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ meaning it will only work with sys-apps/hotplug prior to 20040920.
OK... thanks The reason why I ask is we take /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and turn it into a tmpfs so people can install stuff into it. Now that I am aware of the firmware, I will be sure to copy it out to another location before making the tmpfs and copying it back into the firmware folder.
This is on the 2004.3 LiveCD
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
