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Re: Simplify installation of non-free? (was: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?)



I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written...

> On Aug 09, Tim Hull <thully@umich.edu> wrote:
>> It's actually not just ATI/nVidia - most wireless drivers are at least in
>> part non-free.  In my case, it's the madwifi drivers with their binary
>> HAL. There's also the ipw2100/2200/3945/etc with the non-free firmware.

> The firmwares are not part of the drivers, please do not taint the
> reputation of perfectly free drivers.

You want iwl3945. Newer firmware is needed, but you can throw away that
user-space daemon. :-)

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