Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Riley Baird
On 27/01/15 19:19, Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi, Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of the firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular basis[1]. Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem would be to

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of the firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular basis[1]. Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem would be to have the installer tell the user where these

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/27/2015 03:26 AM, Stephan Dörner wrote: Dear Debian developers, I just installed Debian 8 (testing) on a PC of mine with the graphical installer and the setup ran really smooth - with one exception: It was a big hassle to find and download the unfree firmware for my Wifi adapter,

Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-26 Thread Stephan Dörner
Dear Debian developers, I just installed Debian 8 (testing) on a PC of mine with the graphical installer and the setup ran really smooth - with one exception: It was a big hassle to find and download the unfree firmware for my Wifi adapter, which I needed for the installation. Here’s a

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-26 Thread Riley Baird
I just installed Debian 8 (testing) on a PC of mine with the graphical installer and the setup ran really smooth - with one exception: It was a big hassle to find and download the unfree firmware for my Wifi adapter, which I needed for the installation. Generally, you shouldn't need a network