Paul van der Vlis wrote:
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| detect network hardware
|
| Some of your hardware needs firmware to operate. Debian only ships
| free firmware and probably there was no free firmware available for
| your hardware at the time this installer was made.
|
| The missing firmware files are: ......
|
| Firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as USB stick or
| floppy.
|
| [...]
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Still not sure this could be seen as recommending loading non-free
firmware.
There was a discussion between the Linux-Libre maintainer and Stallman
about firmware filenames [1]. The idea is to not in any way help the
user get the firmware, but also not stop him from using any firmware
files he has.
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/421680/
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