Thanks for your report. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:04 AM, <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: > That is very nice, however this package may have very well been > installed by the user in a sneakernet situation, where he needs this > package to enable his network connection in the first place - a chicken > and egg situation. He may ONLY have a wireless or sneakernet connection > available or need this package to initialize his antenna!
The prism2-usb-firmware-installer package is for the convenience of the vast majority who can either use a wired connection during installation or use the card with built-in firmware and just wants to upgrade the firmware. Otherwise you can use the linux-wlan-ng-firmware package to make a .deb (including the firmware files) which you can distribute among your own machines. How else would you suggest to solve the chicken and egg situation you are referring to? >> and convert them to the format used by the kernel modules since 2.6.32. > >> The downloaded file will be used as-is by the 2.6.31 kernel. If you have an >> earlier kernel you will have to install the linux-wlan-ng-firmware package >> instead. > > First you mention -32, then -31... The -31 kernel does not use the converted format, but the raw downloaded one. > >> Note that only some adapters really need a firmware file and that firmware >> files are not completely free (in the sense of freely redistributable), >> which >> is why this package exists. > > Perhaps move to non-free so the Internet connection need not be required. The firmware files themselves can not be distributed by Debian, not even in non-free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
