Comment 90 for bug 255651

I think the problem is that older BIOSs don't "know" whether or not a floppy drive is present (floppy drives still use an old technology designed back in 1981 or such) and loading the floppy driver module when there is no floppy drive (by adding it to /etc/modules) for everybody would probably slow down booting and result in lots of error messages (and might in some cases even cause harm to other hardware?).

Maybe adding the floppy driver to the hardware dialog that also has the closed source drivers for video cards etc. is a possible way to make it easier to enable this for "normal" users?