On Fri, 2022-08-19 at 11:38 -0500, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > openSUSE has this clever system that hooks into zypper (their apt > equivalent) to install the firmware package on demand if a matching PCI > ID is found (presumably USB device identifiers too, but I'm not sure). > > This could be a nice longer-term solution? In the shorter term, for > another distro comparison, Fedora does what Ansgar suggests and just > preinstalls a lot of firmware.
Debian has this too, the package is isenkram (and -cli). It also allows installing non-firmware packages like tools to manage external devices. https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#Firmware_after_installation https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#Announcing_supported_hardware https://wiki.debian.org/USB/GadgetSetup -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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