On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:44:10PM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Am Donnerstag 14 Juni 2018 schrieb Michael McConnell: > > Thanks for confirming I am not going crazy (: I've been googling around > > to see if USB is a non-free firmware element and from what I can tell > > since loading firmware via USB seems to be the recommended way to load > > non-free drivers I doubt this is a licensing issue. From what I've read > > it appears intel and a few others gave USB 100% license free. Sooo is > > this just an overlooked driver from the release? > > > > Cheers, > > Mike > > The driver for USB is in the standard kernel. It just wasn't included in the > initrd created during my installation, at least not the one for the USB > keyboard, as I did the installation with another, old PS2 keyboard *and* > chose "only necessary drivers", not "generic", which includes all the > available drivers into the initrd, if I understand correctly. So, as no USB > was being used during install the installer included no USB drivers in > initrd, I think. In my case the problem didn't have anything to do with > licensing or non-available non-free software or something like that. >
Hi Stefan, if you choose to install only the necessary drivers, you will be guaranteed to have only the drivers needed for the hardware present in the system at install time. That's the reason why you don't get USB modules in the initrd (which is exactly what I would expect to happen if I asked to include only the necessary drivers, TBH). I guess there is genuinely no bug here, just a feature ;) I am sure you get the point. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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