Re: Wifi

[Klaus <klaus.doering999@gmail.com>]

On 09/03/14 11:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 09 mar 14, 05:56:09, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> The Intel NICs AFAIK are all free firmware, so if he has the Intel NIC 
>> it shouldn't be a firmware load issue. 
> 
> Unfortunately not :(
> 
> $ dmesg | grep firmware
> [    9.914262] iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
> [    9.914276] iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.61.2.24
> 
> I actually thought Atheros chipsets didn't need firmware, but the 
> description of firmware-atheros seems to suggest otherwise.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
> 
And the pkg containing that firmware is from the non-free tree:

$ apt-cache policy firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-iwlwifi:
  Installed: 0.41
  Candidate: 0.41
  Version table:
 *** 0.41 0
        500 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ sid/non-free amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


-- 
Klaus