Re: Debian 9.1 Xfce wifi with bcm43142 on HP laptop

Am 24.08.2017 um 11:25 schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
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> On 22.08.17 22:07, Henning Wendt wrote:
>> Why did you choose to bypass apt?
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> maybe he couldn't use APT before he set up broadcomm module in order 
> to get
> network connectivity.
>
> Just guessing - I'm curiour whether this was the case.

Ah a kind of catch-22, makes sense.
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>> If I'm not mistaken, you will not receive possible future upgrades 
>> for a package this way.
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> He will, if the package was downloaded from debian archive and if he
> downloaded jessie or older version.

You are right, I stand corrected.