Hi. I just tested Debian Edu Wheezy on two of my old test laptops, a Dell Latitude D505 and HP EliteBook 2530p. Both proved to need some hardware specific workaround to get the wifi cards working. A laptop that isn't working out of the box is unlikely to inspire people to continue using Debian Edu when testing it for the first time. We thus need to make sure machines work properly out of the box.
I've added the fixes needed for my test machines in our debian-edu-hwsetup script, and hope others can do the same for the hardware you have lying around. I removed the obsolete stuff (removing usplash) in the process. The debian-edu-hwsetup script is executed by cfengine at the end of the installation, and can run code to fix stuff based on DMI manufacturer and product name, PCI device present (vendor/device), and kernel module loaded. Check it out in debian-edu-config/sbin/debian-edu-hwsetup to learn more, and please add code there to fix your machines to work out of the box with Debian Edu Wheezy. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
