Fedora Firmware Special Interest Group
Mission
Goal: to get all legally available firmware needed to get devices to work packaged for / in Fedora so that a users devices which require firmware will just work
We aim to accomplish this goal through a variety of activities:
- Creating packages of firmware
- Contact manufacturers asking them under which conditions their firmware may be redistributed
- Contact manufacturers requesting them to modify their firmware redistribution conditions, to make them Fedora compatible
Available firmware
- for several ALSA-supported sound cardsalsa-firmware
- for the Digium S101I (IAXy)asterisk-firmware
- for Atheros AR9170 wireless network adaptersar9170-firmware
- for Atmel at76c50x wireless network chipsatmel-firmware
- for some Broadcom 43xx series WLAN chipb43-openfwwf
- for Conexant cx23418-based video capture devicescx18-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 network adaptorsipw2100-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 network adaptorsipw2200-firmware
- for Epson flatbed scannersiscan-firmware
- for the Hauppauge PVR 250/350/150/500/USB2 model seriesivtv-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 1000 B/G/N network adaptorsiwl1000-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 A/B/G network adaptorsiwl3945-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965 A/G/N network adaptorsiwl4965-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 5000 A/G/N network adaptorsiwl5000-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 5150 A/G/N network adaptorsiwl5150-firmware
- for Intel® PRO/Wireless 6000 A/G/N network adaptorsiwl6000-firmware
- for Marvell Libertas SD 8686 Network Adapterlibertas-sd8686-firmware
- for Marvell Libertas USB 8388 Network Adapterlibertas-usb8388-firmware
- firmware files used by the Linux kernellinux-firmware
- for the M-Audio/Midiman USB MIDI and Audio devicesmidisport-firmware
- for qlogic 2100 devicesql2100-firmware
- for qlogic 2200 devicesql2200-firmware
- for qlogic 23xx devicesql23xx-firmware
- for qlogic 2400 devicesql2400-firmware
- for qlogic 2500 devicesql2500-firmware
- for Ralink® RT2561/RT2661 A/B/G network adaptorsrt61pci-firmware
- for Ralink® RT2571W/RT2671 A/B/G network adaptorsrt73usb-firmware
- for wireless devices based on zd1211 chipsetzd1211-firmware
Tools for loading/extracting/dealing with firmware
- tools for uploading firmware to some soundcardsalsa-tools-firmware
- firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless driverb43-fwcutter
- firmware extraction tool for Broadcom wireless drivebcm43xx-fwcutter
- firmware download to EZ-USB devicesfxload
Firmware being packaged
- bfa-firmware - Brocade Fibre Channel HBA Firmware
- bluez-firmware - Bluetooth firmware distributed by the BlueZ project
- ueagle-atm4-firmware - Firmwares for usb adsl modems based on Eagle IV chipset
Firmware currently missing from Fedora
Notice that this is just a list of firmware which we would like to see in Fedora, firmware in this list has NOT been checked yet for proper licensing.
Networking Devices
- 3Com Bluetooth Wireless PC Card 3CRWB6096
- Thomson SpeedTouch 330 USB
- sil (for prism and prism_pci)
Multimedia Devices
- AV7110 based DVB cards ( link )
- OREN or51211 and 51132 demodulators ( link )
- various USB TV devices ( link )
- R5U87x based webcams ( link )
Orphaned Packages
- Firmware extraction tools for Apple Built-in iSight camera.isight-firmware-tools
Packagers/Reviewers/People interested
Packaging guidelines
In addition to the standard Packaging:Guidelines, it is important to realise that firmware does not need to be under a free software / oss license. As long as it may be freely redistributed without restrictions, it may be packaged.
List of firmware which we can NOT package
- b43-firmware
- b43legacy-firmware
- Firmwares for usb adsl modems based on Eagle I, II and III chipsets - No responce from vendor regarding redistribution status.