Bug#721869: install appropriate linux-headers
On 4 September 2013 22:03, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: base-installer
> Severity: normal
>
> The CD images include linux-headers packages, but d-i does not install
> these by default. I think that it should, so that if the user needs
> to build out of tree kernel modules they don't need to jump through
> the additional hoops of learning that Debian has separated kernel
> headers and how to install them. If we begin installing it by default,
> users should come to just expect that they can build kernel modules from
> source without doing anything more than a make, which will be a good
> thing.
I agree with Joey here. Imho gcc & linux-headers should be installed
by default when a desktop-like installation/tasks are chosen.
My latest ultra notebook doesn't have ethernet port and needs
out-of-the-tree wifi drivers compiled.
I fetched the tarball off github on my phone & transferred it to that
notebook over USB and then compiled.
I managed to compiled because I joyfully discovered that default
Ubuntu installations do install gcc and linux-headers unconditionally.
This was my first time experience where drivers didn't work and I
really had no other connectivity options, which I discovered only
after completing the installation.
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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