Bug#502997: package could be named better

2008-10-21 Thread Daniel Watkins 
Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 0.13
Severity: wishlist

A name (or alias) like 'iwlwifi-firmware' would be helpful (as I assumed that
would be roughly what the package name for any firmware I was missing would be).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages.

firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools0.92l tools for generating an initramfs
ii  linux-image-2.6.18 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6 Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron
ii  linux-image-2.6.26 2.6.26-9  Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron

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Bug#502997: package could be named better

2008-10-21 Thread Bastian Blank 
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:25:26PM +0100, Daniel Watkins wrote:
 A name (or alias) like 'iwlwifi-firmware' would be helpful (as I assumed that
 would be roughly what the package name for any firmware I was missing would 
 be).

Please explain what you try to fix.

Bastian

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Bug#502997: package could be named better

2008-10-21 Thread Daniel Watkins 
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 19:02 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:25:26PM +0100, Daniel Watkins wrote:
  A name (or alias) like 'iwlwifi-firmware' would be helpful (as I assumed 
  that
  would be roughly what the package name for any firmware I was missing would 
  be).
 
 Please explain what you try to fix.
When I installed etch on my laptop and subsequently upgraded it to sid,
I was without working wireless.  I was getting messages on the console
regarding missing firmware, but wasn't able to diagnose what the problem
was easily, as I couldn't see a package to do with 'iwl3945' that was
missing.  In the end, I resorted to 'apt-get install iwlTAB', to no
avail.  I was finally able to resolve the problem, but it took me much
longer than was necessary.

If this has a more obvious name, it would make life easier.




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