Le 09/12/2016 à 00:46, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
that: 1) some drivers, for esoteric reasons, don't work as modules and
have to be compiled into the kernel image,
AFAIK, none of built-in drivers need any out-of-kernel firmware. How
could such firmware be loaded before a root filesystem is mounte
On Fri, 09 Dec 2016, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> So, if your computer is generally working it's possible that the device
> driver that is complaining about missing firmware is actually a driver
> you don't need... and if that turns out to be the case, you have the
Not in this case, the BCM43xx netwo
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 08:34:49PM +0100, Yvan Masson wrote:
> So, from the result of:
> # dmesg | grep firmware
> -> you know that kernel module "b43" is missing some firmware
> (ucode15.fw)
>
> After enabling contrib and non-free repository, you can search for
> related packages:
> $ apt sea
So, from the result of:
# dmesg | grep firmware
-> you know that kernel module "b43" is missing some firmware
(ucode15.fw)
After enabling contrib and non-free repository, you can search for
related packages:
$ apt search b43
This lists interesting packages: "firmware-b43-installer" and
"firmwa
Thanks for your help. Responses to your suggestions are given below.
Ben Finney: Detect network hardware.
Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The
firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy.
The missing firmware files are: b43/ucode15.fw b
On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Steve Greig wrote:
> When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines
> laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the
The output of "lspci" and cat "/proc/cpuinfo" would tell us a lot more.
I don't recall the name of the hard
Hi,
> I would appreciate any advice on this. Is it possible to run a test
> to see what that software was and install it now. Although I would
> prefer not have any non-free software I would have it if it was
> something quite important such as controlling the fan.
As said Santiago Vila, it is pr
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:11:29AM +, Steve Greig wrote:
> When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines
> laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the
> software were given although I did not record the names. I decided to go
> ahead witho
Steve Greig writes:
> When I installed debian I got a message saying my computer (emachines
> laptop AMD Athlon X2 64bit) needed some non-free software. The names of the
> software were given although I did not record the names.
That's important information. Could you try running the installer a
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