On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:22:23PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 18, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Sorry to be late about this, but i think that removing plugin support is > >not so nice, especially as you then loose pppoatm support, and this > >would mean no installation over pppoatm ADSL modems. > You are *very* late, as ppp-udeb was killed a few weeks ago because > nobody could find an use for it. > Lack of pppd in udeb form does not mean that net install will be > impossible, it just requires something like the current net install > mini-CD, with a set of regular .deb to install on the installed system. > > >And yes, i plan to somehow make the unicorn drivers available as udebs, > >altough i don't know yet how i will achieve that and since they are > >non-free, they cannot go into the official medias. > If I have not missed some, looks like that *all* pppoatm modems share > this problem because even if the driver is free it has to upload a > firmware which we cannot redistribute.
What do you think about Goswin's solution, and building both a ppp-udeb and a ppp+plugin-udeb package. The normal ppp-udeb is the one used by the normal d-i, while the ppp+plugin-udeb could be put together with the non-free per device .udebs on a floppy or something, and then loaded by d-i. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
