On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:30:48PM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: > Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote: > > Yes, quite a lot actually - we can then ask people to feed a floopy or > > CD containing the vendor-supplied firmware. Do keep up... > A floopy? > Maybe I'm failing to keep up (I've obviously taken a long time to get to > reading this message), but why can't the driver that requires the > firmware also be on the floppy or CD in loadable module form? If the > installer's smart enough to look for firmware it can look for extra > kernel modules too. I suggested that; I was told it represented an unacceptable amount of additional work. The installer already *is* smart enough to look for extra kernel modules on floppies, so I'm really not sure why some people consider this burdensome. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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