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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? by bgladx64 on Sunday June 18, 2017 @07:33AM (#14580200)
Drivers are software that runs in the kernel to interface with hardware.

Firmware is software that runs on the actual hardware itself, in this case it runs on the microprocessor on the WiFi card

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