On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 23:39 +0200, David Coppa wrote: > What's the purpose of having a non-working wifi card? > > If you have concerns with firmwares, swap your card with, for example, an > atheros or another card that doesn't need a firmware. > > And, btw, the other firmware is for a webcam (uvideo), not the video card...
For me the issue was surprise (something I dislike in an installer); I was asked to confirm the download when 5.1 was -current and not asked when it was a release. I had assumed the reason for the confirmation was the license, but the note in the commit suggests it was because fw_update might be buggy. Also, while I recognize this is an edge case, I have in the past sold systems with OpenBSD installed on them to other people, and now that I come to think of it I have no idea whether that's legal to do with, say, iwn-firmware installed on it (it's probably not). Weldon
