Rene Engelhard un jour écrivit:
Hi, Simon Valiquette wrote:When upgrading from Etch to Lenny, b43-fwcutter is not automatically installed even if bcm43xx-fwcutter was previously installed.That's intended.This obviously make the wireless card to stop working (at least on the iBook G4) once the kernel get upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.26, so we have a lost of functionality when upgrading to Lenny.And we should beep bcm43xx-fwcutter for kernel 2.6.18, in case you need to boot it again for whatever reason.
OK fine, but would that be possible to find a way to automatically install b43-fwcutter by default when upgrading to Lenny if bcm43xx-fwcutter was already installed?
That would be very convenient, as I don't see why someone that have installed bcm43xx-fwcutter in Etch would not want to have b43-fwcutter in Lenny.
Or do there is some technical difficulties to do that in a clean way?
Besides that, b43-fwcutter does not even know which kernel you run.
True, but we know that most people that have already installed bcm43xx-fwcutter will want to install b43-fwcutter as well when upgrading to a kernel >= 2.6.24 (more exactly, I think this is 2.6.20).
Since it is very easy to do, and that it give a much better user experience when upgrading from Etch, I don't see a reasons for not doing this in Lenny.I don't think it'd make sense, given you want to keep bcm43xx-fwcutter for the old kernel. But if someone overruled me....
The best compromise is probably to find a way to have both package installed after upgrading to Lenny, and still be able to individually uninstall them if we want to. But I am not sure of the best way to achieve that though.
Simon Valiquette