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> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg <
> pascal.m...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Mark a écrit :
>> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Arthur Barlow <arthurbar...@gmail.com
>> > <mailto:arthurbar...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with
>> > very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially
>> > released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable
>> > packages. So fine, I do the upgrade. Reboot, and find I can't get
>> on
>> > the network.
>> >
>> > After some hunting around, I realize the Intel e100 firmware has
>> been
>> > removed. What!!! Just because it's part of the "non-free"
>> > packages??!!! My PC is now "bricked!!" I'm going to have to go to
>> > another computer download the deb package, transfer and reload it.
>> >
>> >
>> > Is this what those of us who use "contrib non-free" in our Lenny
>> > /etc/apt/sources.list file should expect to have happen when we upgrade
>> > to Squeeze?
>>
>> No, this is what those of you who do not care to read the release notes
>> should expect when upgrading to the new stable release.
>>
>
> I have read the Squeeze Release Notes, here is what it says about non-free
> firmware. So the RTFM responses can stop now...
> 2.1.2. Firmware moved to the non-free section
>
> Some drivers included in the Linux kernel used to contain non-free firmware
> blobs. Starting from squeeze this firmware has been moved to separate
> packages in the non-free section of the archive, such as firmware-linux.
> If such packages are installed, the firmware will be loaded automatically
> when required.
>
