hey Ben, I got around to testing a build from the source you reference in your blog[1] today - but it appears that the e100 patch in place simply removes the firmware and marks the driver broken. I see in #494308 that there were a couple of different approaches being considered for e100, so perhaps e100 is still a work in progress.
If you decide to move forward w/ a request_firmware() approach, you might want to take note that the e100 driver will be included in the initramfs by default. This means that the firmware should be included in the initramfs as well. You should be able to enable an initramfs hook in the firmware-nonfree source package - see bnx2/defines for an example. I know this works for fw blobs that live in /lib/firmware, but I don't know how well it would deal with files in other subdirectories (e.g. /lib/firmware/e100/). Thanks! [1] http://people.debian.org/~benh/firmware-removal/ -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]