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Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer



Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun:
> The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during
> installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN
> devices with non-free firmware.
> Since a majority of the WLAN devices need non-free firmware, just
> dropping this functionality without replacement is a serious regression.
> Therefore I ask you to re-enable it until a replacement is written.

Could something like isenkram [1] be integrated into d-i and install
necessary (firmware) packages based on the modalias information?

Especially [2] looks like it could be a replacement.
That said, isenkram-autoinstall-firmware doesn't seem to use the
modalias info and instead greps through the modinfo output which looks
like a rather hackish approach on a cursory glance.

Kay, what's you opinion on something like this?

Michael


[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/isenkram.git;a=summary
[2]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/isenkram.git;a=commitdiff;h=18d7085f4ca0ad4ea979b88cc14315f939d2d32c
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