On Friday 04 June 2010 01:04:29 Richard Nelson wrote: > How about just making a list say like wireless-minimal and > wireless-gnome and include all you think is needed for wireless. Then > folks who want that will have a couple of choices.
I don't think that including a good network-manager application is the issue. Those are (afaik) part of main and can therefor be included in an official livecd. Where I do see the main issue is that for a wireless device to be used, you usually need firmware and most firmware is part of non-free and can therefor not be included in Debian or DebianLive. It's basically the same as with d-i. To install Debian with only a wireless device, you probably should've found http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ where they speak of "tarballs of common firmware packages", extracted that and put the relevant .debs onto a stick and provide that during install. Certainly, it's doable if you know what to do and where to look, but especially ppl new to debian and/or linux probably won't find that info and just think that debian/linux doesn't support wireless or sth like that. So I am looking for ways to make it as simple as possible to use wireless even if the firmware/drivers can't be shipped in an official debian live cd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
