Thanks for your quick answer. Le mercredi 15 mars 2006 à 20:46 +0100, Robert Jordens a écrit : > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 19:04 +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: > > The firmware seems to be provided by zd1211-firmware package (non-free ?) > > but nothing suggested its installation. > > Yes. Binary. Non-free. > > > It should probably be present in the package's dependencies, then IMHO > > (although I'm not sure how a free package may depend on a non-free > > one... maybe suggest only ?). > > It recommends zd1211-firmware already. Look at the generated package. >
Ah, yes, indeed... strange... "m-a a-i zd1211" or "dpkg -i zd1211-module..." doesn't mention anything. Sorry, I hadn't checked the package. Hmmm.... anyway, I don't know if module-assistant should or shouldn't take into account the recommended packages, but from the user's standpoint, it looks like there's no recommended package. Sorry, but still looks like something is problematic. Or maybe it's because of a side-effect of bug #334065, which causes the firmware not to be installable ? Anyway, some mention of the firmware package in a README in /usr/share/doc/zd1211-module... could be interesting. > > Or maybe the firmware is not mandatory ? > > I don't think it's really mandatory because it seems too small to > contain all the firmware. Maybe it's just some calibration data or geo > set. On the other hand noone has found a way to get the chip working > without that binary blob. > Ack. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF INT Evry (http://www.int-evry.fr) OpenPGP-Id: 1024D/6B829EEC
