Bug#721869: install appropriate linux-headers
On 5 September 2013 15:07, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
> Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org> writes:
>
>> My latest ultra notebook doesn't have ethernet port and needs
>> out-of-the-tree wifi drivers compiled.
>> I fetched the tarball off github on my phone & transferred it to that
>> notebook over USB and then compiled.
>
> And this is the preferred solution, which you would recommend to any new
> user? How about having the wifi device support by Debian instead?
> Wouldn't that be better?
>
Sure, but there will always be hardware which is not supported out of
the box by stable debian release.
My wifi driver is on it's way and will land in either 3.12 or 3.13 kernels.
Of course it's not the preferred solution, but rather a fall-back
resort that Debian thought of, and not simply ignored.
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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