Bug#980758: make installation of wireless firmware easier for end users

From	lange@debian.org
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#980758: make installation of wireless firmware easier for end users
Date	2021-01-21 20:10 +0100
Message-ID	<BzNvb-8nq-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: firmware-nonfree

When an end user want to install firmware for the wireless cards, they
need to know which chip is build into their computer, to get the
correct Debian package name.

If Debian would provide a meta package for all wireless/wlan firmware
packages, the end user only need to install this package.

We already have firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-misc-nonfree
(which do not depend on the wireless firmware packages)
so maybe the new name could be firmware-wireless-nonfree.

I found these package that include firmware for wireless cards.

atmel-firmware
firmware-atheros
firmware-brcm80211
firmware-ipw2x00
firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-libertas
firmware-ralink
firmware-zd1211
firmware-brcm80211
firmware-ti-connectivity

-- 
regards Thomas

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Bug#980758: make installation of wireless firmware easier for end users lange@debian.org - 2021-01-21 20:10 +0100
  Bug#980758: additional info Thomas Lange <lange@cs.uni-koeln.de> - 2021-01-26 14:50 +0100

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