linux-firmware

[joker5bb]

Our linux-firmware package in the repo is a bit outdated
-the version in bt repo is 1.2, and the new build version is 1.35 (2010-05-25)
-due to new hardware (mostly wireless devices) we are missing lots of firmware for our drivers to work
-importing the linux-firmware .deb package from:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware
can be the easiest way to make all of wireless cards which have linux drivers work!
-also making easier for everyone to test the beta kernel!

there is a changelog here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...are/+changelog

also it will be nice if the linux-firmware-nonfree was updated as well for the same reason
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...rmware-nonfree

[joker5bb]

the new linux-firmware 2.0 package in the bt repo does not have all the firmware