[Nix-dev] Wireless firmware for NixOS Live CD

[Tony White]

2009/10/14 Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/14 Tony White <tonywhite100 at googlemail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> I've just found out that this is no more. So it's been removed and
>> replaced with stuff like :
>> rt73.nix but how is it possible to download the firmware when I have
>> to use rt73usb to do it???
>> Or, use /etc/nixos/nixos/modules/services/hardware/udev.nix to load
>> the firmware, but wait hardware.firmware = [   ]; so add a path to it
>> and then nixos-rebuild switch the live cd. No that's not a good idea.
>>
>> Any suggestions? Apart from use a cable, which I can't. Is there
>> anyway to do what I want without fussing? I just want to load a
>> firmware file that would normally just need to be placed in
>> /lib/firmware. :(
> I added the rt73 into nixos. I used another nixos to build a minimal
> installation cd with the rt73 firmware.
>

Hi Lluís,
I did that a while ago and I've lost the cd.
It's really gonna suck for me if that's my only option. Looks like
this may take me some time...

Thanks,
Tony