Re: Selecting the appropriate driver for Broadcom wifi cards

2014-01-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/08/2014 11:21 PM, Corey Velan wrote: > So, the slightly more general question is, how do we create a live image > that supports the broadest possible set of ethernet and wifi cards > without the user having to do anything (and we're willing to use non-free)? by using the same mechanism we do

Re: Selecting the appropriate driver for Broadcom wifi cards

2014-01-08 Thread Corey Velan
Just discovered one more thing. Installing broadcom-sta-dkms creates this file: /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf which blacklists b43 (which must be why the wl driver gets chosen), but also blacklists other drivers like b44, which my research shows is required for some ethernet cards. So,

Selecting the appropriate driver for Broadcom wifi cards

2014-01-08 Thread Corey Velan
In my live configuration, I have enabled non-free and added these packages broadcom-sta-dkms b43-fwcutter firmware-b43legacy-installer firmware-b43-installer So, I end up with both the wl and b43 drivers installed. So far so good. I'm not sure how the OS decides which driver to use, but on some

Re: apt-get install in hooks

2014-01-08 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Kamil Czekirda wrote: > 2014/1/6 Richard Nelson : > > Greetings, > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Kamil Czekirda > wrote: > >> > >> 2014/1/6 Richard Nelson : > >> > Greetings, > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Kamil Czekir

Re: Scheduling 7.4 and 6.0.9

2014-01-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:50:27AM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Our "standard" time intervals lead to us looking at point releases for > both stable and oldstable during February. > > The weekend of the 1st / 2nd February is FOSDEM, so probably best avoided. :-) > How are people fixed for: > >

Re: Scheduling 7.4 and 6.0.9

2014-01-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:50:27AM +, Adam Barratt wrote: >Hi, > >Our "standard" time intervals lead to us looking at point releases for >both stable and oldstable during February. > >The weekend of the 1st / 2nd February is FOSDEM, so probably best avoided. :-) >How are people fixed for: > >8t

Re: Scheduling 7.4 and 6.0.9

2014-01-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 01/08/2014 06:50 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > How are people fixed for: > > 8th / 9th February > 15th / 16th February > 22nd / 23rd February > 1st / 2nd March I'm still free on all dates. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs