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Re: Are All Drives Installed .

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On 2020-06-25 04:41, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:36:02PM -0700, Arun Mathai wrote:

> The first thing you need to know is the difference between driver
> and firmware.

Good point.  I installed the following Wi-Fi firmware package:

firmware-iwlwifi


> When it comes to firmware, you can usually run "dmesg | grep -i firmware"
> to see what firmware files the kernel wants to load, and which ones it
> failed to load, and which ones it succeeded in loading.

2020-06-25 13:03:38 root@tinkywinky ~
# dmesg | grep -i firmware
[    0.163136] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[    9.856867] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode
[    9.857132] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 
op_mode iwldvm


> When you say "(mate)", this tells me you most likely used one of the
> semi-official Debian Live installer images.  Not the standard netinst
> image, and definitely not the unofficial netinst-plus-nonfree-firmware
> image.

I prefer Debian 9 and the "amd64-xfce-CD-1" images:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/9.12.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.12.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso


> Or it could be one of
> those "Optimus" horror shows, with both an Intel chipset and an nvidia
> chipset, in which case you are screwed.

I did try to install Debian on this same Latitude E6520 several years 
ago, and Optimus was a problem.  But, it does work today (with Optimums 
disabled in CMOS Setup).


David

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Are All Drives Installed . Arun Mathai <arunkollannur10@gmail.com> - 2020-06-25 11:10 +0200
  Re: Are All Drives Installed . echo test <echotest09@gmail.com> - 2020-06-25 11:30 +0200
  Re: Are All Drives Installed . Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-25 13:50 +0200
    Re: Are All Drives Installed . David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-06-25 22:30 +0200
  Re: Are All Drives Installed . David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-06-25 22:10 +0200
  Re: Are All Drives Installed . Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2020-06-25 23:40 +0200

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