On Saturday 07 March 2015 13:06:12 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> On Saturday 07 March 2015, elcaseti . wrote:
> > I don't understand.  It's clear that Exe doesn't have drivers for many
> > sound cards & wifi cards.  But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
> > with TDE installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi
> > cards?  Thanks

Yes. Most.  Though probably not the newest.  And you may indeed have to edit 
your repositories as Gerhard suggests and install linux-firmware-nonfree.  
But I didn't have to do so.  To my surprise.

I always edit my repositories automatically anyway to include contrib and 
non-free.

HTH
Lisi

> Here in Mint I e.g. have the package
>
> linux-firmware-nonfree
>
> and other nonfree packages. There is a good chance they include drives for
> your hardware.
> They for sure are free as in beer but nonfree according speech (you don't
> have to pay) and to use them you have to include the correct repositories,
> e.g.:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>
> in case of Debian.