From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Paul wrote:   
   > There should be some way for a user to figure out the "hardware"   
   > files that a modprobe might discover on every boot.   
      
   That reminds me of the wifi problem I was having w/ a laptop; a 'bunch'   
   of different distro/s could not properly determine the broadcom wifi on   
   a live boot.  All of those needed ethernet access to the repo/s so the   
   user could 'spoonfeed' the hardware recognition for the wifi.   
      
   One distro, MX Linux, could manage the recognition just fine 'all by   
   itself' on booting the live.   
      
   I was puzzled by how that all worked. Clearly the module was available,   
   at the outset, but the recognition algo /usually/ couldn't handle the   
   problem correctly.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
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