Re: [Cooker] DVB firmware files, licenses

[Anssi Hannula]

Pascal Terjan wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi@mandriva.org> wrote:
>> Pascal Terjan wrote:
>>  > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Anssi Hannula <anssi@mandriva.org> wrote:
>>  >>  Thus the affected DVB devices work out-of-the-box on Ubuntu, but not on
>>  >>  Mandriva. What can/should be done?
>>  >
>>  > The kernel doc contains /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware
>>
>>  Only for 18 files of the 44, and iirc some of the urls in that file are
>>  inactive.
> 
> You can send a patch :)

I guess I could look for windows drivers and see.

> IIRC the kernel modules say to look at that doc when the firmware is missing

Yes. But how should we handle that graphically for the user?

AFAIK there is some handling for network devices, how is that done and
could a similar method be used there?

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Anssi Hannula