On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:03:43 -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with very > little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially released. > I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable packages. So > fine, I do the upgrade. Reboot, and find I can't get on the network. > > After some hunting around, I realize the Intel e100 firmware has been > removed. What!!! Just because it's part of the "non-free" > packages??!!! My PC is now "bricked!!" I'm going to have to go to > another computer download the deb package, transfer and reload it. > > Does this have some nonsense to do with the "philosophy" of "free" > software. If so, it's absurd.
Please, calm down. No one is here is responsible for any decission taken by devels nor for any bug it can appear after an upgrade :-/ Did you check the packages that were going to be removed before clicking on "yes, upgrade"? Review your logs to find out what hapenned. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.07.22.09...@gmail.com
