Re: OT: selective updates from a yum repo

Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Troy Engel wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > Matthias has the ipw2200-firmware package. That should work.
> 
> (thanks all for the replies) Dag, I had seen this and read some google hits
> going back and forth about what's needed. So, in today's world of FC5 kernel
> all I need is the firmware package, and none of the other stuff that
> historically is going on? If so, that's beautiful - problem solved.

FWIW the same is true for FC4, the firmware just have to be placed in the 
correct directory /lib/firmware and (I think) the hotplug scripts do the 
rest, right as rain.

The bluez-bluefw package is an official Red Hat package that includes 
support for some bluetooth chipset in the same way.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  [email protected],  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
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