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| author | Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> | 2010-09-15 00:06:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> | 2010-09-15 00:06:41 +0000 |
| commit | 89d6f1ff1ceef196c9f953db8a647f1b4924548a (patch) | |
| tree | 8e2af79599dc3566b1943c129d61573622a259bd /en/hardware/network-cards.xml | |
| parent | cd12436f88ede9bf7af337e95ff195147c71ff78 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-89d6f1ff1ceef196c9f953db8a647f1b4924548a.zip | |
Fix hardware part for non-Linux ports. Now needs fine-tune from BSD people.
Diffstat (limited to 'en/hardware/network-cards.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/network-cards.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/en/hardware/network-cards.xml b/en/hardware/network-cards.xml index 6e2705046..b42dc056d 100644 --- a/en/hardware/network-cards.xml +++ b/en/hardware/network-cards.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <title>Network Connectivity Hardware</title> <para> -Almost any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel +Almost any network interface card (NIC) supported by the &arch-kernel; kernel should also be supported by the installation system; modular drivers should normally be loaded automatically. @@ -90,14 +90,14 @@ ISDN is supported, but not during the installation. <para> Wireless networking is in general supported as well and a growing number of -wireless adapters are supported by the official Linux kernel, although many +wireless adapters are supported by the official &arch-kernel; kernel, although many of them do require firmware to be loaded. If firmware is needed, the installer will prompt you to load firmware. See <xref linkend="loading-firmware"/> for detailed information on how to load firmware during the installation. </para><para> -Wireless NICs that are not supported by the official Linux kernel can generally +Wireless NICs that are not supported by the official &arch-kernel; kernel can generally be made to work under &debian;, but are not supported during the installation. </para><para> |