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Re: Missing firmware after upgrade to 64 bit



Frank McCormick a écrit :
> Installed 64 bit version of Stretch yesterday and noticed this morning
> I am apparently missing some firmware.
> 
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-1-amd64
> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3
> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for module tg3
> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3

You get these warning because the hardware has a Broadcom ethernet
controller which uses the tg3 module and this module declares it may
need these firmwares :

# modinfo -F firmware tg3
tigon/tg3_tso5.bin
tigon/tg3_tso.bin
tigon/tg3.bin

However your Broadcom ethernet controller may not need any of them, or
optionally use one to enable some offload functions.

> An aptitude search doesn't turn up anything.

These files are included in the package firmware-linux-nonfree from the
non-free section.

> root@frank:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
> #
> 
> 
> deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
> deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
> root@frank:/etc/apt#
> 
> What else should be in there ?

The non-free section.


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