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Re: Identifying needed wifi driver



On 11/29/2017 05:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2017-11-22, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
On 11/22/2017 09:24 AM, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 08:06:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
I had installed Stretch from a DVD set.
It prompted for a WiFi driver which I did not have.
I made a handwritten which is not completely legible [iwlwifi is legible].
I've not _intentionally_ deleted any log files.
Where would the desired information be?

# grep firmware /var/log/installer/syslog

iwlwifi would be a likely candidate. The firmware packages
contain numerous iwlwifi-*-[0-9].ucode files.


One line of the output is:
Oct 17 17:38:39 check-missing-firmware: missing firmware files
(iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode) for iwlwifi

That is consistent with the barely legible portion of my handwritten note.

Thank you.


The above firmware file is provided by the package firmware-iwlwifi from
the non-free repository.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-iwlwifi


Thank you.


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