[Gllug] etch installer with ipw3945 driver?

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 23 Sep, Thomi Richards wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know where I can find a Debian etch installer with the
> ipw3945 present? I need to install etch on a machine with a wireless
> NIC and no ethernet adaptor...
> 
> 
> I'm curious - does anyone know how distro makers decide which third
> party drivers to include in the install kernel? I assumed that they
> would try and pack in as many drivers into the install kernel as
> possible, provided that the drivers were stable enough... But that
> doesn't seem to be the case.. for Debian anyway..
> 
> 
> Thanks,

   The latest daily "testing" installer from the Debian development team
might help, and should be able to install etch, otherwise try a USB dongle
or network converter.

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Chris Bell

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