Missing firmware after fresh installation

[daharn]

Because updating to Kodi v18 somehow corrupted my installation, I just reinstalled everything to my SD card from the latest xbian image.

While this worked fine, I found that my WiFi dongle (based on Broadcom BCM43143 chipset) wasn't recognized initially. dmesg complained about being unable to find the corresponding firmware. I could solve this by

Code:

apt-get install firmware-brcm80211

Is there a reason this is not included by default? Since this is done using apt-get and not using the update interface of xbian-config, the solution is not overly obvious, especially for beginners. Also you first have to connect via Ethernet cable to be able to install the update.