Fedora 8 ideas

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 17:30:33 UTC 2007


On 6/7/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> Le jeudi 07 juin 2007 à 12:20 -0500, Arthur Pemberton a écrit :
> > On 6/7/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Le Jeu 7 juin 2007 17:37, Jarod Wilson a écrit :
> > > > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > >> Goede, J.W.R. de (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
> > >
> > > >> What cards is this useful for that we don't ship firmware
> > > >> for? Anything other than bcm43xx and ralink?
> > > >
> > > > A number of dvb and v4l devices also require firmware that we don't
> > > > ship.
> > >
> > > And alsa devices
> > >
> > > But that's because historically we've never shipped firmware, not
> > > because anyone looked hard recently and decided we could not ship
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Please try to get the firmware in-distro before focusing on a download
> > > helper.
>
> > I have felt the pain of no firmware installed for an alsa device. 2-3
> > hours wasted. It would have been nice if I at least knew firmware was
> > needed.
>
> Alsa is mostly a case of "someone needs to poke RH Legal to check the
> alsa firmware dumps can be packaged (and if not go ask the hadrware
> vendors for permission)"


After 2hrs trying to figure out why the device didn't work, it took me
an hour to find the firmware at the bottom of the page.

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