On 09/03/14 11:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 09 mar 14, 05:56:09, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> The Intel NICs AFAIK are all free firmware, so if he has the Intel NIC
>> it shouldn't be a firmware load issue.
>
> Unfortunately not :(
>
> $ dmesg | grep firmware
> [ 9.914262] iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware
> iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
> [ 9.914276] iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.61.2.24
>
> I actually thought Atheros chipsets didn't need firmware, but the
> description of firmware-atheros seems to suggest otherwise.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
>
And the pkg containing that firmware is from the non-free tree:
$ apt-cache policy firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-iwlwifi:
Installed: 0.41
Candidate: 0.41
Version table:
*** 0.41 0
500 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ sid/non-free amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Klaus
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