On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:48 +1000, Geoff Simmons wrote: > retitle 573950 Please include RTL8192E firmware > tags 573950 patch > thanks > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:00:25AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:10:52PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Greg, do you have a full licence text for this? The rtl8192e driver > > > package is no longer available for download. > > > > Yes I do, I need to update the patch and resend it for the main > > linux-firmware package with the newest license that makes it legal to > > distribute it. > > The RTL8192E firmware has since been pushed to David Woodhouse's > linux-firmware tree [1]. > > Release 0014.0401.2010 of the driver package was acquired and made > available at [2]. Attached is a patch based on the firmware license > within.
Thanks a lot for tracking down this driver package. The firmware-linux-nonfree binary package is specifically for firmware which used to be built into drivers. Debian never enabled rtl8192e with built-in firmware. I've added this firmware to a new binary package, firmware-realtek. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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