Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not

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Subject: Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
From: Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:23:07 -0500
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

Anyway - some bedtime reading:
https://lwn.net/Articles/655519/

Thanks for that, a meeting report from Debian maintainer Steve McIntyre on this very subject from Debconf 2015 is linked from there: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/msg00622.html

And it turns-out I did not imagine it:

"We already provide *unofficial* non-free versions of installer and live images on cdimage.debian.org, but we've been deliberately not advertising these as well as the normal main images. This means that a lot of users don't find them."

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- Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
  - From: Dean Valentine <deanvalentine@lhsla.org>
- Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
  - From: Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com>
- Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
  - From: Tim Ye <tim.ye0@aliyun.com>
- Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
  - From: Dean Valentine <deanvalentine@lhsla.org>
- Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
  - From: Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com>
- Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
  - From: Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
- Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
  - From: Pete Orrall <pete@cs1x.com>
- Re: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch Linux recognize my Acer Aspire S wifi, debian does not
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