Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think). During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the effect that I might need to install non-free firmware and/or drivers. I don't remember the exact wording, and there was no opportunity to do anything but either 'go-back' or 'continue' , so I selected 'continue' and the rest of the install completed without error. The issue of possible non-free (soft|firm)ware has remained un-resolved in my mind until today when I looked into what was installed in Aptitude. In Aptitude I see a number of firmware packages and none of them are installed, so apparently they were not needed, so why was the warning issued? Is there a place where this is all explained? Is there a generic set of drivers that usually work or at least can possibly work. And I was lucky enough to have them work, or what? I'm curious.
TIA -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
