On 03/21/2016 12:06 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Hi,
On Fedora 23 and 24 Server, I'm seeing the linux-firmware package
installed, but none of its subpackages. As a consequence, any wifi
requiring firmware that Fedora supports in the linux-firmware package
isn't installed. So I'm kinda curious what the point of installing
linux-firmware is, if none of the firmware is actually being
installed? And also if this is intentional or a bug?
Thanks,
linux-firmware is a strict Requires: of kernel-core, so I suspect that's why
it's on the system. If it's not *actually* required by the kernel, then this
should likely become a soft Requires instead. Also, we carry optional
installable packages on the DVD including the @hardware-support group which
includes all of the wifi firmwares. It's just not installed by default, since
the assumption is that Server is most commonly installed on wired ethernet systems.