live cd has restricted drivers but the full install does not have

Abhishek Dixit abhidixit87 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 12:11:43 UTC 2011


I want to know any Ubuntu distribution take 9.04 I have used the Live
CD of all of these has the properietary Broadcom STA driver.
If you are using a Live CD then you will be able to use the internet/wifi.
This is confirmed by a green color dialog that appears on top right
hand corner of screen which says additional drivers available for this
system.
You click on it the application pretends as if it is downloading some
thing (which it does not)
and you get the wifi working from the live cd
 but the moment one installs Ubuntu from this live CD to hard disk I
necessarily need to connect a lan wire and then install the wireless
firmware or driver.
I want to know why is this required? Why can't the driver of live CD
be installed during the install process on the hard disc itself?

-- 
Regards
Abhi




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