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

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