Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
> Right. It works, but it is an annoying extra step to do. And I had more than one
> customer asking me why Debian is forcing them to do such an extra step and why
> they should not just use Ubuntu.
Tell them to blame their hardware vendor for not releasing the
firmware as free software. It is rare to see that, but it does happen:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw
http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/firmware-linux-free/filelist
--
bye,
pabs
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