On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:53 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > What does have the FIRMWARE to do with a DEVICE DRIVER? For the DEVICE DRIVER to work, a FIRMWARE must be loaded on some hardware, as you well know. Debian has promised that the Debian distribution will only be free software. Some of that software is device drivers, but other parts of it are compilers, window systems, music playing programs, email systems, databases...and firmware. Thomas