Hello Colin, Am 2006-03-02 08:32:46, schrieb Colin Watson:
> (I have no particular position on ndiswrapper in main per se, and I > haven't read all of this enormous thread.) > > It's common for e.g. network card manufacturers to provide their images > on a floppy disk. If ndiswrapper were integrated into d-i, then it would > be possible to let the user insert the floppy disk provided by the > manufacturer and make their card work with just that. Without > ndiswrapper integration, the user has to figure out that this thing > called ndiswrapper that they've never heard of is needed, then go and > get it and prepare a floppy disk with all the right stuff on it. This is > a lot more error-prone, may not always be possible (they may not have > any access to the Internet other than via the system they're trying to > install), and even if possible raises the difficulty bar quite > significantly beyond "insert the floppy disk provided with your network > card". Well explained. (I was not able to write it down correctly because I am not nativ english speaker) I have several commercial/gov. customers and those are running into trouble while switching from Windows to GNU/Linux. I had to create my own Debian-Installer-CD-Images which support wrapper and firmware loader. (works, but do not ask how!) I think, (specialy) Debian should care about such new GNU/Linux users. > Of course, it would be possible to prepare a special ndiswrapper driver > image that could teach the installer how to do this without having to > have it in the core installer; so ndiswrapper doesn't *have* to be in > main for this to work, although it would make things easier from the > point of view of making this trick work out of the box with Debian CDs. Hmmm, providing a contrib ISO-Image fo some MBytes with wrapers and firmware loaders which can loaded seperatly? This would be nice. Then users of critical hardware should download the Netinstall-ISO and the Contrib-ISOto install there computrs. I think, such solution would be the best. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]