On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:09:20AM -0800, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > > > (...) > > > > > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > > > installation media, that include non-free firmware ... That installation > > > media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it is vital to have it. > > > > I'm afraid you'll have to fight with Debian's own Policies: > > > > http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#nonfree > > > > I for one am fine with the Debian policies and am thankful to have such a > great free OS. My struggle, and I doubt it is mine alone, is that as a > first-time upgrader, the Lenny to Squeeze transition might break a few > systems, which I have a limited window of time to fix if something goes > wrong. I need to be prepared as much as possible given those circumstances, > hence I've been scouring the Release Notes. The biggest concern for me is > how, for example ipw2x00 and bcm43xx firmware upgrades will work. According > the the Release Notes, it seems that the firmware-linux package may handle > it ( > http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#nonfree-firmware) > but the Debian wiki says to use the /etc/apt/sources.list method ( > http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems for ipw2x00 > and http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#b43-b43legacy for b43xx). When I try to > see what the firmware-linux metapackage contains, the debian webpage returns > an error (??) (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-linux). > I just upgraded my son's laptop. It uses the ipw2x00 firmware for his wireless card. The upgrade did not change that. I followed the release notes for the most part. Specifically:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (on Lenny) change sources to squeeze and replaced debian-volatile with squeeze-updates removed the backports repo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (on Squeeze repos) apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 apt-get install udev reboot apt-get dist-upgrade (on Squeeze repos) During that dist-upgrade, the wireless card stopped working. It was fixed with a reboot. I suspect, but am not sure, that I could have fixed it by restarting network-manager. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209020005.gb28...@aurora.owens.net
