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

From Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?
Date 2021-03-13 11:10 +0100
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On Sat, 2021-03-13 at 10:04 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
> deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Anssi Saari wrote:
> > 
> > > udevadm trigger is the command to run to simulate plugging in the wifi
> > > adapter after you have the firmware available. I don't think modprobe
> > > loads firmware.
> > 
> > loading the driver, loads the firmware 
> > unloading the driver, unloads the firmware
> 
> > both done with modprobe.
> 
> Are they? Show me. What I'm saying is modprobe doesn't load firmware and
> udev does since that was the observed behavior here.

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

>From reading those it appears that if firmware is in the correct
filesystem location, then user space won't be involved any more with
its loading.

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.

-- 
Tixy

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How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopinth@gmail.com> - 2021-03-12 01:40 +0100
  Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-03-12 02:00 +0100
    Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-03-12 10:20 +0100
  Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-03-12 04:40 +0100
  Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopinth@gmail.com> - 2021-03-12 14:10 +0100
  Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-12 15:10 +0100
    Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-12 15:30 +0100
      Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopinth@gmail.com> - 2021-03-12 17:30 +0100
  Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-03-12 19:20 +0100
    Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-03-13 00:20 +0100
      Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-03-13 01:20 +0100
      Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-03-13 09:10 +0100
        Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-03-13 11:10 +0100
          Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-03-15 17:50 +0100
            Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-03-15 18:10 +0100
              Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-03-15 21:50 +0100
                Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-03-16 04:50 +0100

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