2011/3/24 JA Magallón <[email protected]>: > Hi... > > First of all, I have tried alpha2 on a couple systems, and apart from some > glitches it works pretty fine, I could even work regularly on it... > > But there is just one thing that disappointed me. > > It looks that there is no non-free soft in installer DVD. I can live without > nVidia drivers till I add non-free repos and reconfigure X after first boot, > but for that I _need networking_. > > I tried this on a laptop and on a non-wired desktop. In both cases the > wireless adapters were recognized, but were not activated because they > needed binary firmware blobs (intel for the laptop, Linksis PCI wifi > card for the desktop). The pain is that the desktop only network is > WiFi, no possibility to run a cable to my router from the opposite corner > of the house :(. So pick your USB stick and take a walk. > > I suppose the same problem will be very common, for laptops and desktops. > > Is there any possibility to include firmwares in the installed DVD ? > Could the rules be relaxed a bit or not ? > > If people have only one computer, routed via wifi, they are in trouble... > > As I said, you can live with free drivers for graphics, but you can't > without network :)). > > TIA > > -- > J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex: > \ It's better when it's free >
Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? -- Ahmad Samir
