Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw

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Subject: Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:42:30 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1343553956.46550.YahooMailNeo@web28905.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> (Gary's message of "Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:25:56 +0100 (BST)")
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On 2012-07-29 11:25 +0200, Gary wrote:

> While I was installing I got an error message about some missing
> firmware. Sadly, this happens to be the firmware for my WLAN card. I
> had to skip the setup of the network because of this.
>
> So the first step is getting the firmware for the WLAN card.

I'm not sure this is really the problem; rtl8105e-1.fw is requested by
the r8169 ethernet driver and not by any wireless driver.  So it could
simply be the case that your WLAN card is not supported by the Squeeze
kernel.  What does "lspci -vk" print?

Cheers,
       Sven

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