[Mageia-discuss] Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250

[Michael Scherer]

Le samedi 04 juin 2011 à 11:57 -0400, Hoyt Duff a écrit :
> On 6/3/11, Gary Montalbine <gmontalbine at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I got the firmware from the IVTV site and copied  it to /lib/firmware
> >
> 
> 
> But that is a band-aid, a kludge, that gives you a cobbled-together
> system, not to mention it does not really solve the problem for the
> distro and the wider user base. And every time you need to install
> Mageia on that hardware, you'll need to apply the kludge again and
> again.

There is lots of firmware that cannot even be distributed. Of course, we
could do like Canonical and just pretend laws do not exist : 
http://fasmz.org/~pterjan/blog/?date=20090423 , s this clearly annoy
users... 

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Michael Scherer