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.

> https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc
>
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