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Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?



Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> writes:

> That doesn't seem to be the standard method for the last 9 years,
> see...
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/518942/
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/5/175

Thanks.

> Maybe the old ways are still enabled in Debian and used in some cases?
> My bullseye kernel does have the kernel config enabled for user side
> firmware loaders, I've not looked at udev.

I seriously doubt that. udev is part of systemd now and it seems crazy
Debian would maintain old code like that. With a quick look at the the
patches Debian applies to udev there are six but none of them seem
relevant to firmware loading.


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