[Nix-dev] Wireless firmware for NixOS Live CD

[Tony White]

2009/10/14 Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:
> Hi,
>
> Tony White wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I couldn't quite parse that last paragraph ;-) but if you can't do a
> nixos-rebuild, then here is a very hacky way to add a path to the firmware
> search path:
>
> $ find $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system/ | grep udev-rules) \
>  | grep 00-path
> /nix/store/08n14c4v8nnz4zi0jwl763r840p4kszj-udev-rules/00-path.rules
>
> and edit the line ENV{FIRMWARE_DIRS}=... in that file.
>
> --
> Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
>

Hi all,
Yes! Thanks guys. I think I'll go and get mucky with Eelco's suggestion. :)

Have a good one,
Tony