keep some /etc/network/interfaces lines

[haxwithaxe]

some chipsets need help getting the right drivers and the lines like:

interface=wlan0 # The interface to listen on
driver=nl80211

may be required for the wireless to work.
other lines may need to be preserved but i don't know what they are at the moment

[virtadpt]

Hmmmm... this seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be necessary these days, what with udev being able to automatically load the necessary drivers. At first I thought maybe we broke something but I went poking around inside of my Raspbian .img files and it's the same way in there.

My off-the-cuff thought is that it should be possible to write a script that runs at boot-time, parses the output of lsusb -v to find wi-fi interfaces, looks up the device ID, and runs modprobe to load the correct driver. I think we're also going to have to default to installing every firmware package in the Raspbian package repository. Does anybody have a list of them handy so I can add them to the Puppet manifest?

[virtadpt]

This looks like a good place to start: http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/firmware-nonfree

It's a meta-package, so by putting that in the manifest, we get all of them at once.

[virtadpt]

Well, I'm on crack. I just logged into my node and you can't just apt-get install firmware-nonfree. Oh, well. It's not as if we can't list all of the firmware packages in the manifest ourselves.

Added all of the wireless chipset firmware packages to manifest in commit f74747a.

[virtadpt]

Has anybody tried a b43 (Broadcom) wireless adapter with ByzPi? We've got three options (firmware-b43-installer, firmware-b43-lpphy-installer, firmware-b43legacy-installer) but I don't have one to test with so I can't do compatibility tests.