Passing on an inquiry from a friend...
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- mdz
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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
A wiki page is the best way to make the information available to other
users. If the driver is something that we ought to package, contact the
kernel team for that part.
the problem is the driver ships with firmware, but its not like someone
stole the image from some windows drivers, the company puts out there
own firmware files. let me quickly recap what i went through. i read this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-24022.html
raising this point, which address your thought about whether you ought
to package the driver or not:
"For some reason, which I'd like to know, Ubuntu has omitted many of the
qlogic drivers from their binary kernel. The source appears to exist,
but the standard kernel config methods don't indicate that they are
available for inclusion when using the Ubuntu source. (2.6.10 series
ubuntu kernel).
Ubuntu, what gives? I need the qla2300 driver and have had to compile
and install my own kernel. I'd really like to be able to use and promote
ubuntu as is."
the solution couldn't be easier. your kernel source ships with the
driver located here:
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx
so, i just had to edit the parent makefile and Kconfig to bring it back
into the compile path. i also went to Qlogic's website and downloaded
the more recent version of their driver. all i had to do was drop the
source right into the qla2xxx directory, and everything just worked.
http://download.qlogic.com/drivers/25000/qla2xxx-v8.00.01-dist.tgz
compiling the kernel was no big woop for me, but i figured this would be
informative.
thanks mdz, i'm enjoying ubuntu.
-g
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