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In particular, I'm interested in finding out if Debian has any intention
of including some of the wireless drivers that Ubuntu has gotten into
their kernel. Does anyone know anything about this, or who I should
contact?

In particular, I'm interested in Debian including the 818x driver for
realtek chips. It's sort of a wishlist item, and the code is already
there in Ubuntu. But it's also a hardware support request, and I can
only imagine what things would be like if there were a bug submitted on
every piece of hardware that people wanted to get working.

Angelo

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Will Debian include Ubuntu changes?

Submitted by Ron Johnson on Thu, 2007-02-01 15:00.

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On 02/01/07 12:34, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> In particular, I'm interested in finding out if Debian has any intention
> of including some of the wireless drivers that Ubuntu has gotten into
> their kernel. Does anyone know anything about this, or who I should
> contact?
>
> In particular, I'm interested in Debian including the 818x driver for
> realtek chips. It's sort of a wishlist item, and the code is already
> there in Ubuntu. But it's also a hardware support request, and I can
> only imagine what things would be like if there were a bug submitted on
> every piece of hardware that people wanted to get working.

The debian-installer list might be the place to ask. Or at least
they could point you where to ask.

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Will Debian include Ubuntu changes?

Submitted by Douglas Tutty on Thu, 2007-02-01 17:00.

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:34:19PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> In particular, I'm interested in finding out if Debian has any intention
> of including some of the wireless drivers that Ubuntu has gotten into
> their kernel. Does anyone know anything about this, or who I should
> contact?
>
> In particular, I'm interested in Debian including the 818x driver for
> realtek chips. It's sort of a wishlist item, and the code is already
> there in Ubuntu. But it's also a hardware support request, and I can
> only imagine what things would be like if there were a bug submitted on
> every piece of hardware that people wanted to get working.
>

Ask on debian-boot.

I don't do Ubuntu. I _think_ that the reason that some find newer
hardware supported is that they use a newer kernel. Newer than what, I
don't know. When bleeding-edge hardware gest support in the kernel
upstream, it takes some time to get through unstable (Sid) into testing
(currently Etch). But at least when it does, it has been tested to some
extent and doesn't break other stuff.

So first see if Etch solves it for you.

Doug.

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Will Debian include Ubuntu changes?

Submitted by Angelo Bertolli on Fri, 2007-02-02 14:00.

Thanks for the responses to contact debian-installer and debian-boot.
I'm already using Etch, so I know the modules aren't there. I'll try to
do a little work and find the source code for whatever kernel is in
unstable and see if I find it. I did already look at
packages.debian.org, but I couldn't really find much of anything but
meta packages for kernel images in unstable. Hopefully I'll have more
time to look for it over the weekend.

Angelo

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