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+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html">Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</a></div>
+      <div class="date">27th January 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
+This is the sad fact of todays computers.  In the next version of
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> based
+on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
+firmware blobs easier to handle.  The common use case I run into is a
+laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
+work, but there are other use cases as well.</p>
+
+<p>First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
+with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
+included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
+during installation.  This take care firmware for network devices used
+by the installer when installing from from local media.  But for
+example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
+not taken care of by this.</p>
+
+<p>For non-network devices, we provide the script
+<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware</tt> which
+search through the <tt>dmesg</tt> output for drivers requesting extra
+firmware.  The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
+file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
+the requested firmware file(s) is installed.  I have proposed to do
+something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">#655507</a>), to allow PXE
+installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better.  Run the
+script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
+firmware packages.</p>
+
+<p>Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
+because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
+working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
+included to be able to install at all.  To fill the PXE installation
+initrd with extra firmware, the
+<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware</tt> script is
+provided.  Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
+PXE initrd with firmware packages.</p>
+
+<p>Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
+network cards working.  For this,
+<tt>/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware</tt> is
+provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs.  It is used
+the same way as the other firmware related tools.</p>
+
+<p>At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation.  We
+do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
+non-free software, and it is their choice.</p>
+
+<p>We plan to release beta3 this weekend.  You might want to give it a
+try.</p>
+</div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    

     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html">Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</a></div>
       <div class="date">26th January 2012</div>
     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html">Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</a></div>
       <div class="date">26th January 2012</div>


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-    <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">Hvordan enkelt laste ned filmer fra NRK</a></div>
-      <div class="date"> 5th November 2011</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Ofte har jeg lyst til å laste ned et innslag fra NRKs nettsted for
-å se det senere når jeg ikke er på nett, eller for å ha det
-tilgjengelig når jeg en gang i fremtiden ønsker å referere til
-innslaget selv om NRK har fjernet det fra sine nettsider.  I dag fant
-jeg et lite script som fikser jobben.</p>
-
-<p>Scriptet er laget av Jan Henning Thorsen og tilgjengelig fra
-<a href="http://jhthorsen.github.com/snippets/nrk-downloader/">github</a>,
-og gjør det veldig enkelt å laste ned.  Kjør <tt>nrk-downloader.sh
-http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/582810</tt> for å hente ned et enkelt
-innslag eller <tt>nrk-downloader.sh
-http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/kategori/3521</tt> for å laste ned alle
-episodene i en serie.</p>
-
-<p>Det er ikke rakettforskning å laste ned NRK-"strømmer", og
-tidligere gjorde jeg dette manuelt med mplayer.  Scriptet til
-Hr. Thorsen gjør det raskere og enklere for meg, men jeg vil ikke si
-at det er en revolusjonerende løsning.  Jeg mener jo fortsatt at
-påstanden fra NRKs ansatte om at det er
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best___ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html">vesensforskjellig
-å legge tilgjengelig for nedlasting og for streaming</a> er
-meningsløs.</p>
-</div>
-      <div class="tags">
-        
-        
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>. 
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-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (6)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>

 
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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (54)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (54)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (70)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (71)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (7)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (7)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (102)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (103)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (13)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (13)</a></li>