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| From | Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? |
| Date | 2017-01-14 11:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sZtUB-4P6-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <sZsFd-49R-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <sZtKW-4LE-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Le 14/01/2017 à 11:23, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > Now there's already some firmware on that card (ROM, flash, > whatever persistent storage). But those things are set up > to receive more firmware from the operating system on > the "main" computer. (...) > (My WiFi hardware also would like to get some firmware. > Since it isn't free software, I decided to go without). May I ask why ? As you noted above, many hardware parts already contain embedded non free firmwares (motherboard, graphic card, network adapter, storage adapter, hard disk, SSD...) so what difference does it make to use a few extra loadable firmwares or not ?
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Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? "M.A. Perry" <maperry@zeelandnet.nl> - 2017-01-14 10:20 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Вадим Колчев <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-14 11:20 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-01-14 11:20 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-01-14 11:50 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-01-14 12:00 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-01-14 12:10 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-14 11:30 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-01-14 11:40 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-14 12:20 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-01-14 18:30 +0100
Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-14 21:30 +0100
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