What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

Darren freebsd at bitfreak.org
Mon Jul 24 18:59:16 UTC 2006


Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
> Why not make it part of the installer?
> Present a screen at the end of the installation that briefly
> explains the idea, and then let the user chose to view the
> information about to be sent, refuse to send it or simply accept to
> send it. This of course requires the machine to be connected during
> the install, which is not a problem during ftp-installs but might be
> a problem for users installing from cd.

Or, currently, any machine with a wireless NIC, since sysinstall does 
not handle ifconfig wireless settings well or wpa_supplicant settings at 
all.  One of the most common family of cards, the Intel PROWireless 
series, requires a firmware blob that AFAIK can't be legally packaged 
with the CD.


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