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

[Pritam Baral]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 17:41, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

You can use the CD in the sources, the packages in the CD will be used to
install on the hard disc installation. Also, I think that during the
installation, there's a check box that lets you install additional
proprietary packages, including wireless drivers. As shown
here<http://ubuntu.paslah.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Ubuntu-Installation1.png>
.


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