Question on busybox and loading firmware?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Was trying to get wireless firmware for IPW2200BG to load, but getting errors 
on boot that it doesn't find firmware? Seems this is coming up during the 
loading of the kernel and before it loads the file system where the firmware is 
located in the /lib/firmware directory. I thought mdev -s might do something, 
but didn't appear to. I did find some messages that talked about a patch to 
busybox regarding firmware, but they were from 2005. 

Never dealt with firmware except when a user had some bnx2x devices that 
needed newer drivers than the kernels included, so I added the whole list 
from the linux-firmware git, and that resolved that users request. Now had a 
user ask about adding wireless support, but the ipw2200 firmware isn't in the 
linux-git since intel seems to restrict it, but as enduser, I can test it.  Have 
asked them, but they pointed me to a web page that points to a page that 
doesn't exist? 

Thanks for any help.


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