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Bug#837385: Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

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Hi,

Am 28. Januar 2023 17:27:28 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>:
>Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (2023-01-28):
>> now that there's massive work on making non-free firmware to work easily
>> in debian-installer and the distribution, would it be possible, to bring
>> the topic of ath9k-htc free firmware forward?
>> 
>> There are some longstanding bugreports for this (and related, some in
>> CC); is there any chance to get this finally fixed for bookworm?
>> 
>> Wouldn't it be a shame, if non-free firmware works flawlessly, while
>> this free firmware still stays an issue?
>
>If you look around in hw-detect or debian-cd repositories, you'll see that
>I'm working on main & non-free & main-non-free-firmware, soon to become
>main & non-free-firmware (once the move is complete). I don't have such
>hardware to confirm what happens at runtime though.

I did not find any mention of ath9k-htc firmware
in the list of packages you identified for this apptoach,
which mad me ask for this.
Sorry for the noise


Holger



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Bug#837385: Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2023-01-28 17:40 +0100
  Bug#837385: Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2023-01-28 21:20 +0100
    Bug#837385: Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2023-01-29 22:10 +0100

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