On 11/20/2017 04:08 AM, John Hughes wrote: > On 20/11/17 05:01, zap wrote: >> there are dongle usbs whose firmware has been made free software, and I >> cannot use this firmware from devuan, because some arrogant debian devs >> were too lazy to remove the non-free package and add the free package. >> so annoying. > >> Firmware is required, which can be provided by installing the >> firmware-atheros <https://packages.debian.org/firmware-atheros> >> package. Open firmware >> <https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc/open_firmware> for this driver is >> also available in the firmware-ath9k-htc >> <https://packages.debian.org/firmware-ath9k-htc> package starting >> from Buster. > Wrong again. Trisquel, parabola, hyperbola... all have one thing in common, they use a completely blob free version of debian's non-free firmware version. my complaint was that debian refuses to use that version so that I can use the dongle without having to use the blobs from the non-free area.
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