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Bug#980205: #980205 installation missing "non free" drivers.

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Yes.   brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin is not currently part of the package
either, and I think there's no logic to copy .txt files even if they
are present.

At 04:39 PM 1/20/2021, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Control: reassign -1 firmware-nonfree
>Control: retitle -1 firmware: missing txt file for brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin
>
>Dave Dyer <ddyer@real-me.net> wrote:
>> At 05:40 AM 1/18/2021, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> >> 3) in my particular case, the driver is brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin, which
>> >> *also* requires a text file, brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt.  I know this because
>> >> I figured out case 2B and got the installer to accept the .bin; it then
>> >> it mentions the need for the .txt file.  (Again, thanks, it would have
>> >> been impossible to proceed without this key information).  However,
>> >> there's apparently no way to get the installer to accept the .txt
>> >> file in the same way that it finds the .bin.
>> >
>> >Hmm, looking into the package firmware-brcm80211
>> >(https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-brcm80211)
>> >there is no such txt file there.
>> >So I wonder where you found such file?
>> 
>> Github + Google.  And the file I found works.
>
>So this txt file will need to be added to firmware-brcm80211 package, too?
>
>Re-assigning there.
>
>
>Holger
>
>
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>Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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