Hi, Simon Valiquette wrote: > When upgrading from Etch to Lenny, b43-fwcutter is not automatically > installed even if bcm43xx-fwcutter was previously installed.
That's intended. > This obviously make the wireless card to stop working (at least on > the iBook G4) once the kernel get upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.26, > so we have a lost of functionality when upgrading to Lenny. And we should beep bcm43xx-fwcutter for kernel 2.6.18, in case you need to boot it again for whatever reason. Besides that, b43-fwcutter does not even know which kernel you run. > The only thing needed to be able to upgrade directly from Etch to Lenny > is a virtual package named bcm43xx-fwcutter that would install b43-fwcutter > (and maybe also remove the old bcm43xx-fwcutter and bcm43xx-source packages). See above. > Since it is very easy to do, and that it give a much better user experience > when upgrading from Etch, I don't see a reasons for not doing this in Lenny. I don't think it'd make sense, given you want to keep bcm43xx-fwcutter for the old kernel. But if someone overruled me.... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
