[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

Thu Mar 24 01:38:41 CET 2011

2011/3/24 JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com>:
+> 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
+>
+
+Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware?
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+