On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Michael Biebl <em...@michaelbiebl.de> wrote: > Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun: >> The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during >> installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN >> devices with non-free firmware. >> Since a majority of the WLAN devices need non-free firmware, just >> dropping this functionality without replacement is a serious regression. >> Therefore I ask you to re-enable it until a replacement is written. > > Could something like isenkram [1] be integrated into d-i and install > necessary (firmware) packages based on the modalias information? > > Especially [2] looks like it could be a replacement. > That said, isenkram-autoinstall-firmware doesn't seem to use the > modalias info and instead greps through the modinfo output which looks > like a rather hackish approach on a cursory glance. > > Kay, what's you opinion on something like this?
It could work. The device modaliases of the running machine can produce the list of modules that will be loaded on a machine. The modules themselves carry the file names of the firmware files in the module's metadata. Kay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
