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Bug#614239: linux-2.6: Warns about missing firmware from firmware-iwlwifi despite having it installed



On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 08:29 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: normal
> 
> I recently helped someone upgrade their laptop from lenny to squeeze.  I
> subsequently installed the 2.6.37-1 packages from current unstable, in
> the hopes of working around a driver issue.
> 
> When I installed the 2.6.37 kernel, it warned about possibly missing
> firmware from the firmware-iwlwifi package.  However, that system
> already had the latest version of the firmware-iwlwifi package
> installed.

This is correct behaviour; firmware-iwlwifi doesn't yet have the
firmware required for some of the newer IWL chips.  I'll reassign this
to firmware-iwlwifi.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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