Hi Tito, list, tito via Dng writes:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:16:31 +0000 > g4sra via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > [...snip...] >> >> > What am I missing? >> >> All the 'other' Drivers that people are complaining are NOT in the >> netinstall ISO's. >> I don't understand the point you are making in adding up the Drivers that >> *are* included. > > Hi, > I'm just saying that I wonder why being not that big in size they were not > included > and in fact as you confirm they are included. > The ones you list here are all firmware blob packages so now the question > arises > which are the DRIVER packages that should have been included and are not? > By inspecting the repos (not the isos) with the synaptic package manager > I was not able to spot the GBs of packages you mentioned, > probably this is my fault and I just look in the wrong places. For one thing, you are forgetting all the third-party drivers that aren't in the Debian package repositories to begin with. I bought a USB WiFi dongle that (quietly) advertised Linux support and needed to add the vendor package repository for its out-of-tree driver. Had to fiddle a little bit to work around Debian<->Devuan issues but it compiles and works fine otherwise. IIRC, there is even a GitHub repository for the sources but I haven't checked if it contains any blobs. The dongle's at the office and I don't remember the vendor/device name. Sorry. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
