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Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...
Date 2020-10-21 15:10 +0200
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Albretch Mueller wrote: 
> > apt install firmware-b43-installer
> > will be needed, I think.
> 
>  Thank you for all the leads and I was installing
> firmware-b43-installer via dpkg, but after I took care of all
> dependencies  firmware-b43-installer was trying to connect to the
> Internet to some lwfinder?
> 
>  Resolving http://www.lwfinger.com]www.lwfinger.com ... failed: Name
> or service not known.
> 

ping www.lwfinger.com
PING lwfinger.com (173.254.30.178) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from just2042.justhost.com (173.254.30.178): icmp_seq=1
ttl=48 time=56.6 ms

Yeah, this package goes and gets the firmware from an external
source. Broadcom is nasty like that.

-dsr-

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Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or  Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-10-20 16:40 +0200
  Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-20 17:00 +0200
  Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 14:50 +0200
    Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 15:10 +0200
      Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 19:00 +0200
        Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-10-22 05:40 +0200
          Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 12:30 +0200
            Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-22 14:20 +0200
            Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 14:40 +0200
              Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 16:00 +0200
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 19:30 +0200
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-10-30 12:40 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-30 13:20 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-11-03 12:10 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-11-04 10:00 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-11-05 12:00 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-11-05 12:10 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-11-05 12:50 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-11-05 13:20 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-11-10 14:20 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-11-11 12:30 +0100
                Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-11-11 17:50 +0100
    Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1  and/or Mac boxes in general? ... Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-10-21 15:30 +0200

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