On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:59:47AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org):
> > PS: No, I'm not happy it's closed. But I find it riduculous if you add
> > another
> > CPU that you cannot control to load firmware, like a free mobile handset
> > did.
> > And then i
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org):
> PS: No, I'm not happy it's closed. But I find it riduculous if you add another
> CPU that you cannot control to load firmware, like a free mobile handset did.
> And then it's free!!111 It's not all clear to me what a GR on a seperate
> section for firmwar
Le mardi, 21 août 2012 20.48:39, Philipp Kern a écrit :
> And then it's free!!111 It's not all clear to me what a GR on
> a seperate section for firmware would yield. (Especially given the fact
> that users now need to activate the whole of non-free to get the firmware
> they need. Rid
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:49:00PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> After all if they don't learn that their wifi requires non-free software
> to work, then what is the point of even having Debian promise to be all
> free software?
Mostly because it's firmware; it doesn't run on the CPU. I for one
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM, borish wrote:
> Well, I know how to solve my problem, but this doesn't help the
> unexperienced user who might ditch Debian if wifi doesn't work and install
> Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu supports non-free firmware during install.
Presumably inexperienced (but proactive
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:41:59PM +0200, borish wrote:
> Well, I know how to solve my problem, but this doesn't help the
> unexperienced user who might ditch Debian if wifi doesn't work and
> install Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu supports non-free firmware during
> install.
I don't think Debian should v
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/
Well, I know how to solve my problem, but this doesn't help the
unexperienced user who might ditch Debian if wifi doesn't work and
install Ubuntu instead. Ubuntu supports non-free firmware during install.
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If hardware is found by the installer that requires non-free firmware to work,
please provide an option to install it from the installation CD and include
firmware-linux on the installation media.
In particular, users who need firmware-linux
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