Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?
On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 15:21:01 +0000, "Andrew M.A. Cater"
<amacater@einval.com> wrote:
>Basic tasks include networking - many IBM and Dell servers use(d) Broadcom
>chipsets which wouldn't work without a non-free driver. Been caught out like
>that installing in a data centre: can't get networking to work to get the
>drivers I need for the network card.
PXE boot will work and load a kernel and a doctored initrd that
contains the non-free firmware. Been there, done that, for thousands
of machines.
It would be so nice if Debian would offer such an initrd out of the
box.
Greetings
Marc
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