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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to Transplant Firmware Blobs -- was: Issue with Wireless Interface
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:00:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5372C047.1060502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1hvUHp3ZcgYq9GO6_1c2Kr_9S2BiJSDdTBZvOE67ArvWZRXQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi all. I found out that I was missing the firmware, not the drivers.
> I have the firmware on a USB stick, so is it possible to transplant it
> in to Gentoo?
>
>

It may be in this package:

sys-kernel/linux-firmware

I can't recall why but I had to emerge that to get some firmwire a while
back. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-14  0:48 [gentoo-user] How to Transplant Firmware Blobs -- was: Issue with Wireless Interface Hunter Jozwiak
2014-05-14  1:00 ` Dale [this message]
2014-05-14  8:44   ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-14 11:53     ` Hunter Jozwiak

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