Re: Firware drivers?


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg <
pascal.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

Mark a écrit :
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:arthurbarlow@xxxxxxxxx>> 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?

No, this is what those of you who do not care to read the release notes
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.

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