On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > But how would a user without any previous knowledge of modemmanager or > Linux networking be able to figure this out?
It sounds like you are looking for isenkram to be integrated into the installer so that the knowledge of which package maps to which hardware is available to the user when doing an install and for modemmanager to declare which devices it supports via AppStream and for installing modemmanager to pull in networkmanager and remove wicd: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isenkram http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/ https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#Announcing_supported_hardware -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
