El dom, 10-02-2013 a las 17:46 +0300, Sergei Trofimovich escribió:
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> The source of confusion was non-working device by default.
> Maybe 'IUSE=+firmware; RDEPEND="firmware? ( sys-kernel/linux-firmware )"'
> for virtual/linux-sources would help user experience a bit.
> 
> Sometimes firmware loader does not even write fw file
> it expects to be present on FS in dmesg (like certain broadcom drivers)
> thus it's nontrivial for user to figure out needed package to be installed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

I agree as I have also needed to google and search in forums to get
proper firmware installed in the past in some machines :/

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