Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
Hello Colin,
Am 2006-03-02 08:32:46, schrieb Colin Watson:
> (I have no particular position on ndiswrapper in main per se, and I
> haven't read all of this enormous thread.)
>
> It's common for e.g. network card manufacturers to provide their images
> on a floppy disk. If ndiswrapper were integrated into d-i, then it would
> be possible to let the user insert the floppy disk provided by the
> manufacturer and make their card work with just that. Without
> ndiswrapper integration, the user has to figure out that this thing
> called ndiswrapper that they've never heard of is needed, then go and
> get it and prepare a floppy disk with all the right stuff on it. This is
> a lot more error-prone, may not always be possible (they may not have
> any access to the Internet other than via the system they're trying to
> install), and even if possible raises the difficulty bar quite
> significantly beyond "insert the floppy disk provided with your network
> card".
Well explained. (I was not able to write it down correctly because I
am not nativ english speaker)
I have several commercial/gov. customers and those are running into
trouble while switching from Windows to GNU/Linux.
I had to create my own Debian-Installer-CD-Images which support wrapper
and firmware loader. (works, but do not ask how!)
I think, (specialy) Debian should care about such new GNU/Linux users.
> Of course, it would be possible to prepare a special ndiswrapper driver
> image that could teach the installer how to do this without having to
> have it in the core installer; so ndiswrapper doesn't *have* to be in
> main for this to work, although it would make things easier from the
> point of view of making this trick work out of the box with Debian CDs.
Hmmm, providing a contrib ISO-Image fo some MBytes with wrapers and
firmware loaders which can loaded seperatly?
This would be nice.
Then users of critical hardware should download the Netinstall-ISO
and the Contrib-ISOto install there computrs.
I think, such solution would be the best.
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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