Bug#687927: firmware-realtek: Missing rtl8411-1.fw and rtl8402-1.fw

[Berni CED <ced@bernispa.com>]

Package: firmware-realtek
Version: 0.36
Followup-For: Bug #687927

I've downloaded the latest firmware from the upstream git repository
and now the network works:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=summary

Ben, do you think that realtek-firmware in testing could be updated to
add support for this network card?


Just to help the casual reader, here it is what i've done:
- From the compressed upstream archive i've extraceted the following
  firmware from the rtl_nic folder (those requested by the curses
  interface) to /root/:
  rtl8402-1.fw
  rtl8411-1.fw
- Under /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/ i've created symlinks to the files
  extracted under /root/. Doing this i can visually recognize what i've
  customized, helping restoring the original state.
- Reinstalled the latest kernel from experimental.

Cesare.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

firmware-realtek depends on no packages.

firmware-realtek recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-realtek suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools                            0.107
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-3-486 [linux-image]      3.2.23-1
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64 [linux-image]    3.2.23-1
ii  linux-image-3.5-trunk-amd64 [linux-image]  3.5.2-1~experimental.1

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