On 01/29/2013 04:45 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
If the Fedora team saw this as a problem, they would arrange to have rpmfusion keep drivers available for the obsolete kernels in the media as well as the current kernels you get with upgrade. At least for Broadcom and Ralink (net) and Radeon and Nvidia (video). Those are probably the most widely used hardware bits, and without the driver installed you can't upgrade and maybe your video only works in text mode. Assuming you can even find a driver for the old kernels.
It would definitely be helpful for rpmfusion to preserve driver packages for the kernels shipped in the media although I thought they did this?
I just checked for F17 and they do appear to have kmod packages for the 3.3.4-5 kernel that shipped on the media.
You could pre-download everything including dependencies and have it on a USB device available as a repo to the LiveCD or installer. There are tools that will do all that but it would be nice to have a very simple way to put it all together in advance to simplify this kind of install.
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