On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 06:22:36AM -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> Been toying with the jessie_1.0.0_amd64_minimal-live.iso.
>
> The box I am playing with uses a rather common Ralink RT2870 USB wifi dongle which works out without problem with a PCLinuxOS live iso on this same box, or with Rasvuan on my Raspberry-Pi.
>
> Here with the Devuan-live iso, I get no wireless network, with the indication "device not ready (firmware missing)".
>
> And of course, I cannot get the firmware without a network connection.
>
> An oversight ?
>

Hi Ron,

if the firwmare is not pulled in by the firmware-linux-nonfree package
(i.e., if it is not in firmware-misc-nonfree), then it's not there.

HTH

KatolaZ

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