[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Thu Mar 24 00:08:40 CET 2011

Hi...
+
+First of all, I have tried alpha2 on a couple systems, and apart from some
+glitches it works pretty fine, I could even work regularly on it...
+
+But there is just one thing that disappointed me.
+
+It looks that there is no non-free soft in installer DVD. I can live without
+nVidia drivers till I add non-free repos and reconfigure X after first boot,
+but for that I _need networking_.
+
+I tried this on a laptop and on a non-wired desktop. In both cases the
+wireless adapters were recognized, but were not activated because they
+needed binary firmware blobs (intel for the laptop, Linksis PCI wifi
+card for the desktop). The pain is that the desktop only network is
+WiFi, no possibility to run a cable to my router from the opposite corner
+of the house :(. So pick your USB stick and take a walk.
+
+I suppose the same problem will be very common, for laptops and desktops.
+
+Is there any possibility to include firmwares in the installed DVD ?
+Could the rules be relaxed a bit or not ?
+
+If people have only one computer, routed via wifi, they are in trouble...
+
+As I said, you can live with free drivers for graphics, but you can't
+without network :)).
+
+TIA
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \               Software is like sex:
+                                         \         It's better when it's free
+