On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:01:02PM -0500, 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. > > AR9271 is the firmware I was talking about. Thinkpenguin sells these, I > wanted to use it on devuan, on my netbook while I wait for my other comp > to get fixed, but for some crazy reason, debian decided to not add the > free software version of the firmware choosing to be blatantly nasty... > >
I might have misunderstood you, but I don't think that adding support for non-free firmware is among the Devuan's top priorities... My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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