[Nix-dev] A couple of questions: X server, profiles

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Sean E. Russell wrote:

> 	Firmware `ipw2200-bss.fw' for device 
> `/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:04.0/0000:02:04.0' not found.
> 
> and -- again -- I do have the ipw2200-fw-3.0 installed.  Again, is there some 
> magic which, after installing this, needs to be run to make the system aware 
> of it?

I also have a Intel 2200.  Here is my configuration:

https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/configurations/trunk/misc/eelco-tyros.nix

The magic line is networking.enableIntel2200BGFirmware = true which sets up
udevd (actually the script nixos/upstart-jobs/udev-firmware-loader.sh) so that
it can find the firmware.

BTW, the NixOS configuration file supports WEP (by sticking the WEP key in a
file referenced by the wepKey attribute of the interface, see my configuration
file) but not WPA yet.  If you want WPA you have to run wpa_supplicant yourself.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco