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Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card?

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
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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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