Fedora 8 ideas

[Arthur Pemberton]

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.
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot


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.

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