Bug#979104: installation-reports: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 has no firmware in nonfree iso

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > Yes, that works fine, using a netboot image, I am NOT asked to
> > > provide
> > > firmware for regulatory.db file, because it's already included in
> > > the d-i
> > > image.
> > > 
> > > However, that's only true for netboot images!
> > > 
> > > My wireless card (on an IBM Thinkpad T60) is also usable with
> > > DVD/CD netinst images 
> > > (so related kernel modules seem to be included in those images; I
> > > have explicitly
> > > tested that with said images on that T60), so probably wireless-
> > > regdb-udeb should just 
> > > be added to all Linux d-i images?
> > 
> > I prepared a patch for this (includes removing it from the netboot/* files,
> > since it's now added generally in pkg-lists/base).
> > Will apply it, if noone objects.
> 
> Oh, I see.  What I did was to add it to every list that includes nic-
> wireless-modules, forgetting that for "CD" images that's not present in
> the initramfs and will get installed later.
> 
> I think the cleanest solution, that I originally intended to implement,
> is to make it a dependency of nic-wireless-modules, but that was going
> to require changing kernel-wedge.  But I don't have time to do that
> now, so I'm happy with your change.  The size increase will be
> negligible.

Now applied.
So, the wireless-regdb part of this bug is now fixed in git.
Thanks


Holger


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