Re: Please take this as constructive
On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 14:30:45 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 07:48, R. Toby Richards wrote:
>
> > Every time that I search for solutions to my wifi drivers, the solution is
> > to apt-get install a bunch of drivers. Why does nobody realize that apt'ing
> > anything is a non-solution: How can I apt-get install <network drivers> if
> > I don't have network drivers? There are DOZENS of responses to questions
> > about network drivers that say to apt-get install various packages without
> > any thought to the fact that nobody can apt without first having network
> > drivers. It's seriously starting to **** me off. I've got computers with
> > Broadcom wifi. How the heck am I going to fix that by using networking to
> > download the gosh darn drivers to fix the networking that I don't have? Of
> > the dozens of "solutions" that I've read about this, NOBODY ever thinks
> > about how to fix the network driver without having a network driver.
> >
> > Do I know how to use sneakernet? Yes. In my young adulthood, email was
> > dialing into a BBS that would then dial the next closest free telephone
> > call to another BBS, and so forth until your message from California got to
> > the East Coast. Days. I remember trucks with huge spools of
> > punch-cards that were data for the mainframe.
> >
>
> I've been hit several time with this same problem, or variants thereof,
> and my solution has always been to have a separate computer with
> network access and use sneakernet between the two computers.
> I've always wondered how to do it better.
Wonder no longer :). Acquaint yourself with netcat.
--
Brian.
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