Thanks for the reply, but at no point during the install do I see an option to install the “necessary” drivers? I just ran through the install once more and still don’t see any prompt or indication asking about supporting USB drivers. I did the install using a USB keyboard on both the VM instance and the dedicated hardware.
Thanks again, Mike > On Jun 14, 2018, at 5:04 PM, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:44:10PM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: >> Am Donnerstag 14 Juni 2018 schrieb Michael McConnell: >>> Thanks for confirming I am not going crazy (: I've been googling around >>> to see if USB is a non-free firmware element and from what I can tell >>> since loading firmware via USB seems to be the recommended way to load >>> non-free drivers I doubt this is a licensing issue. From what I've read >>> it appears intel and a few others gave USB 100% license free. Sooo is >>> this just an overlooked driver from the release? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mike >> >> The driver for USB is in the standard kernel. It just wasn't included in the >> initrd created during my installation, at least not the one for the USB >> keyboard, as I did the installation with another, old PS2 keyboard *and* >> chose "only necessary drivers", not "generic", which includes all the >> available drivers into the initrd, if I understand correctly. So, as no USB >> was being used during install the installer included no USB drivers in >> initrd, I think. In my case the problem didn't have anything to do with >> licensing or non-available non-free software or something like that. >> > > Hi Stefan, > > if you choose to install only the necessary drivers, you will be > guaranteed to have only the drivers needed for the hardware present in > the system at install time. That's the reason why you don't get USB > modules in the initrd (which is exactly what I would expect to happen > if I asked to include only the necessary drivers, TBH). > > I guess there is genuinely no bug here, just a feature ;) I am sure > you get the point. > > HND > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] > [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] > [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] > [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
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