stretch install no hostmot2 in synaptic

On my new install it was as simple as that.

I don't know how it is, if someone makes a fresh install and then try to configure the system from scratch using pncconf.

The time I switched from 2.really_old to 2.8_pre I did that on a fresh installed wheezy machine. I started to convert my .ini and .hal by hand but give up on that and tried to use pncconf to get a clean base config to start on. Trying that I have had the firmware problem too, but it was as simple as apt install hostmot2 to solve the problem.

I don't know how hard it is to create a let's say "hostmot2_lagecy" package that does just install that legacy firmware on the system.

jgnoss wrote: I don't know how hard it is to create a let's say "hostmot2_lagecy" package that does just install that legacy firmware on the system.

Well, the package manager needs to have a link to the server, and the server needs to exist to serve the package.
So it requires both synaptic to be aware of the server, and someone to host and pay for the server, keeping it updated for each new debian (and other distro?) version.

I have found that it is possible to include arbitrary files:

live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/h...customizing-contents