It is remiss of me not to have drawn everyone's attention to this documentation before now. Please cast an eye over it to see whether it fits the bill. https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#driverless-operation The relevant bug reports are at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966701 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=971956 Regards, Brian.