Re: How to load new firmware?

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:27:23 -0400
Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:

> # backports so I can get the latest Realtek wifi drivers
> deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware
> deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware

The only thing I can see is that the instructions specify http, not
https. https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index2h2 As you say,
that should have produced an error when you tried it. Just for the
halibut, try it as http.

Or not. I'm not finding it either.

root@hawk:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease
Ign:5 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:6 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
14 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
root@hawk:~# apt search firmware-realtek
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
firmware-realtek/stable,now 20230210-5 all [installed]
  Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters

firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt/stable 20181104-2 all
  Bluetooth firmware for Realtek RTL8723CS

root@hawk:~# apt-cache search firmware-realtek
firmware-realtek - Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt - Bluetooth firmware for Realtek RTL8723CS
root@hawk:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.bookworm.list 
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware
root@hawk:~# 

Yet the Debian package search shows it there. https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&section=all&suite=all&arch=any&exact=0&keywords=firmware-realtek

And I can pull it in manually.

charles@hawk:~$ wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free-firmware/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-realtek_20240709-2~bpo12+1_all.deb
--2024-10-15 11:39:42--  http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free-firmware/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-realtek_20240709-2~bpo12+1_all.deb
Resolving http.us.debian.org (http.us.debian.org)... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.233.100, 208.80.154.139, ...
Connecting to http.us.debian.org (http.us.debian.org)|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2162540 (2.1M) [application/vnd.debian.binary-package]
Saving to: ‘firmware-realtek_20240709-2~bpo12+1_all.deb’

firmware-realtek_20240709-2~bpo12+1_all.de 100%[=====================================================================================>]   2.06M  2.70MB/s    in 0.8s    

2024-10-15 11:39:43 (2.70 MB/s) - ‘firmware-realtek_20240709-2~bpo12+1_all.deb’ saved [2162540/2162540]

charles@hawk:~$ file firmware-realtek_20240709-2~bpo12+1_all.deb 
firmware-realtek_20240709-2~bpo12+1_all.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0), with control.tar.xz, data compression xz
charles@hawk:~$ 

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