Maybe I should open a new bug instead for this... But maybe you should have the bc43xx kernel driver depend on the bc43xx firmware as a Debian package itself? Then modify the bc43xx-fwcutter program to create a simple Debian package and install that by default, rather than just dump the firmware files where the kernel expects them?
Better if we can make a good interface for when a broadcom card is detected -- in that case, maybe let bc43xx.ko be included, but as soon as we get a log message about missing firmware (assuming it found a card), we ask the user if they want bc43xx-fwcutter, then immediately download it and run it -- hopefully it can download needed firmware on its own, if the user doesn't have the driver. Even better if we can do this in a generic way, so bc43xx-fwcutter becomes fwcutter, or just binary-grabber or something, to handle similar situations in the future. (I'm assuming that eventually, either Broadcom will cave and release the firmware at least free as in beer, or we'll have free/open firmware instead.) -- "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failure on starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92749 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
