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Le 31/03/2010 12:37, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
>  Most firmware files are not included in the system because
>  no source code is available for them. You may need to reconfigure
>  the package manager to include the non-free section of the package
>  archive before you can install these firmware files.

It may be pedantic, but the reason why most firmware are not available
is because they do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines:
they might be open source with a non compatible license.
Anyway, I don't know for sure for the Linux kernel : all the non free
firmware may also be closed source.

Unless you are exclusively referencing the firmware-linux-nonfree
package, which is in the non-free section, some firmware can also be
available through the contrib section (bcm43xx-fwcutter used to download
sources, extract and install firmware from these downloaded files. I
don't know if some packages are still running this way).

I really might be talking nonsense, but if not, what about (no doubt
that it needs to be rephrased in proper English) :

  Most firmware files are not included in the system because
  they do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
  You may need to reconfigure the package manager to include the
  contrib and non-free sections of the package archive before
  you can install these firmware files.

Regards

David

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