Thanks Stephan for your report/suggestion, and Ben for the redirect to -boot@. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2015-01-27): > On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 03:26 +0100, Stephan Dörner wrote: > > Here’s a suggestion: Let the installer display a code, which the user > > can enter on debian.org - it then automatically shows you the needed > > files and let you download them instead of mentioning cryptic file > > names like rtl8168e-3.fw and so on. > > Type that filename in at packages.debian.org and you'll get > <https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=rtl8168e-3.fw&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any>: > > You have searched for paths that end with rtl8168e-3.fw in suite > wheezy, all sections, and all architectures. Found 1 results. > > File > Packages > /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw > firmware-realtek > > You can also find this by running 'apt-cache search rtl8168e-3.fw' on an > existing Debian installation. > > Or you can use an installation image that has all the non-free firmware > packages included. This reminds me I once wondered whether to include a file=>package mapping in the installer so that we could tell users which package(s) they might be interested in. It shouldn't be too hard to automate something around "apt-file search /lib/firmware" that would be updated once in a while. Thoughts? Mraw, KiBi.
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