Re: Some ideas regarding hardware detection and the installation system
[Jérémy Bobbio]
> Will that work for madwifi (Wi-Fi cards based on the Atheros
> chipset)?
If there are source packages with this driver in Debian, and someone
get the required information into discover-data, yes.
> On a closely related matter, could your infrastructure install
> bcm43xx-fwcutter automatically when a wireless card based on the
> coresponding Broadcom chipset is detected?
Assuming you are talking about PCI or USB devices, yes. But someone
need to get the required information into discover-data.
> Is there an easy to restart this process later, for example after
> moving an hard drive from a system to another? In that case, should
> we add such entry in the rescue-mode?
Yes. Just run discover-pkginstall as root.
Happy hacking,
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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