Debian 7

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Re: Debian 7

Post by jdart »

The downside though is that the Debian stable branch updates very slowly and is often missing recent applications and current versions of software.

You won't have that issue with Debian 7 because it just came out. But it was quite an issue with the prior version.

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Wireless firmware

Post by sje »

I was pleasantly surprised with getting a third wireless NIC running in Debian 7. This one was an Asus PCI card which was tamed with the Debian firmware-ralink package. Doing this was easy, but only because I already know how to identify the NIC chipset and how to access the "unfree" repository.

Next: a fourth NIC, this one a USB stick.