[sf-lug] report on the SF-LUG meeting of July 3, 2016

Mon Jul 4 10:20:38 PDT 2016

On Sun, 2016-07-03 at 21:54 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Debian 8.4 32-bit version lacked WiFi
> support.

It was to be expected that Debian Live would not ship with needed
firmware, probably Broadcom since it's a Dell, but I didn't check.

> Daniel tried to rig a way though his phone but
> we had no success for various reasons.

What happened was that the Debian kernel had broken USB support, with an
oops on disconnect. All other apparent issues stemmed from that.