Am 13.12.2013 00:26, schrieb Michael Biebl: > 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.
According to codesearch.d.n, hw-detect is the only tool using /run/udev/firmware-missing. I'm inclined to re-assign this bug to hw-detect and let the hw-detect maintainers decided how to handle this. If something like the isenkram approach would be suitable for them [1] http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=firmware-missing -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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