Matt Gessner wrote: > Wow! Thank you! > > I spoke with a couple people on #centos who didn't think it was > possible to do. THANK you greatly. > > I don't know what Knoppix does differently, but I noticed that their > /lib/firmware was accessible on their live cd. May it be possible > that in the future, the centos live cd's could do the same, or perhaps > something like this could be made to work via a USB key? > > In fact, I'll ask now; is it possible to mount my /lib/firmware off a > USB key and do things THAT way, during startup, so that the broadcom > driver finds the files there? I'm currently working on a new Live CD with increased functionnalities: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2007-July/003744.html I recommend you to give it a try. The resulting Live CD is more flexible. > > On 8/20/07, Patrice Guay <patrice.guay at nanotechnologies.qc.ca> wrote: >> Matt Gessner wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to add some files to /lib/firmware (for a Broadcom wireless >>> card) on my Live CD. >>> >>> Since it's read-only, this means having to go back and modifying the >>> .iso file. I'm assuming the files I want are in centos-live.sqfs. >> No, these files are in usr.sqfs. >> >>> How can I go about making these changes? >> # mkdir /mnt/loop1 /mnt/loop2 >> # mount -o loop CentOS-5.0-i386-LiveCD.iso /mnt/loop1 >> # mount -o loop -t squashfs /mnt/loop1/usr.sqfs /mnt/loop2 >> # cd /mnt/loop2/ >> ... >> # umount /mnt/loop2 >> # umount /mnt/loop1 >> >> -> Burn your modified iso file >>> I realize the firmware files >>> can't be there to begin with, but so far, I've got no success in >>> making these files available when the driver loads since AFAIK it's >>> only going to look in /lib/firmware. >> -- >> Patrice Guay