G'day Arne,

On Monday 11 August 2014 20:31:26 Arne Fitzenreiter wrote:
> On 2014-08-11 03:04, Glen Cunningham wrote:
> > G'day Sig-Arm list,
> >    I have just tried the latest release
> > (ipfire-2.15.1gb-ext4.armv5tel-full-core81.img) on my Raspberry Pi
> > B+ (B-Plus).   First boot and partition re-size was fine, reboot to
> > the "Select Keyboard" screen looked good but there is no keyboard
> > response - actually no USB device response at all!  A 'Pi without
> > USB support has very limited use.
>
> Ack but we have not the resources to change this without help of the
> RPi foundation.
> There are no Firmware and Patches for kernel-3.10.x released yet and
> i think they will
> never released.
>
> >   Is there an easy way to get the correct USB driver for this
> > model? The Debian (Raspbian) people have this fixed,
>
> Raspbian simply use the kernel-3.12.x and firmware suplied from the
> RPi foundation.
>
> > can the driver from Raspbian be used on IPFire?
>
> No. It's a wrong kernel version without and it lacks of some needed
> features like IMQ, Layer7 and grsecurity.
>
> Arne

  Thanks for the reply.  Since I do not have the skills or resources to 
setup my own cross-compiler, I will just have to wait.  Seems a pity as 
the improved hardware in the model B-plus should make it a good 
candidate for a firewall/router. 

Cheers,
Glen