Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 21:47:25 +0000
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
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> If it's user-installed non-free firmware for network interfaces, that is
> the state of manufacturing today: we're back to Winmodems and you're
> stuck with it. I have one of the last netbooks to come with an Ethernet
> port. A USB-Ethernet widget is quite useful to have around these days.
To be fair, Winmodems have limited hardware and do much of their work
in software running on the host hardware. Network devices that require
loadable firmware can be quite capable, hardware-wise, and the firmware
runs on the NIC hardware itself. Winmodems therefore often lack Linux
support, since software has to be written for the host, while loadable
firmware doesn't pose any particular technical problem for Linux (aside
from the ideological problem of it being non-free).
Celejar
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