Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun: > The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during > installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN > devices with non-free firmware. > Since a majority of the WLAN devices need non-free firmware, just > dropping this functionality without replacement is a serious regression. > Therefore I ask you to re-enable it until a replacement is written.
Could something like isenkram [1] be integrated into d-i and install necessary (firmware) packages based on the modalias information? Especially [2] looks like it could be a replacement. That said, isenkram-autoinstall-firmware doesn't seem to use the modalias info and instead greps through the modinfo output which looks like a rather hackish approach on a cursory glance. Kay, what's you opinion on something like this? Michael [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/isenkram.git;a=summary [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/isenkram.git;a=commitdiff;h=18d7085f4ca0ad4ea979b88cc14315f939d2d32c -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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