On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
Hello,
Mark a écrit :
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@gmail.com
No, this is what those of you who do not care to read the release notes> <mailto:arthurbarlow@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with
> very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially
> released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable
> packages. So fine, I do the upgrade. Reboot, and find I can't get on
> the network.
>
> After some hunting around, I realize the Intel e100 firmware has been
> removed. What!!! Just because it's part of the "non-free"
> packages??!!! My PC is now "bricked!!" I'm going to have to go to
> another computer download the deb package, transfer and reload it.
>
>
> Is this what those of us who use "contrib non-free" in our Lenny
> /etc/apt/sources.list file should expect to have happen when we upgrade
> to Squeeze?
should expect when upgrading to the new stable release.
I have read the Squeeze Release Notes, here is what it says about non-free firmware. So the RTFM responses can stop now...2.1.2. Firmware moved to the non-free section
Some drivers included in the Linux kernel used to contain non-free firmware blobs. Starting from squeeze this firmware has been moved to separate packages in the non-free section of the archive, such as
firmware-linux. If such packages are installed, the firmware will be loaded automatically when required.