Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system
On 2014-04-02 15:54 +0200, Klaus wrote:
> On 02/04/14 14:30, Paul E Condon wrote:
>> Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP
>> hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think).
>> During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the
>> effect that I might need to install non-free firmware and/or drivers.
>> I don't remember the exact wording, and there was no opportunity
>> to do anything but either 'go-back' or 'continue' , so I selected
>> 'continue' and the rest of the install completed without error.
>> The issue of possible non-free (soft|firm)ware has remained un-resolved
>> in my mind until today when I looked into what was installed in Aptitude.
>> In Aptitude I see a number of firmware packages and none of them are
>> installed, so apparently they were not needed, so why was the warning
>> issued? Is there a place where this is all explained? Is there a generic
>> set of drivers that usually work or at least can possibly work. And I was
>> lucky enough to have them work, or what? I'm curious.
>>
>> TIA
>>
> Have you had a look in /var/log/syslog whether any firmware is loaded,
> or whether any firmware is reported missing?
>
> grep firmware /var/log/syslog
That's the wrong place since this file might already have been rotated
since the last boot, better grep in dmesg instead:
,----
| $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog
| $ dmesg | grep firmware
| [ 19.715265] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
| [ 19.807476] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29
`----
Cheers,
Sven
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