Ubuntu
linux-firmware package

  1. Bug #1124373
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1124373

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Jarrett Meyer (jarrettmeyer) wrote :

First answer: The file I am attempting to download directly is http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.79.1.tar.gz. This file produces the error above when attempting to untar the file.

Second answer: The download never completes when using apt-get install linux-firmware. The download loops indefinitely (or at least through 30 tries before I CTRL-C the process).

Length: 23381949 (22M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `linux-firmware_1.79.1.tar.gz`

99% [=====================================> ] 23,371, 1776 404K/s in 27s

2013-02-13 14:11:06 (831 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 23371776. Retrying.

Trying the .deb file, as suggested, produces the same result, except that the connection closes at byte 23076864 each time.

This is a brand new Ubuntu 12.04 install. The other 200+ initial updates installed just fine. This is only that that's giving me fits.