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linux-firmware package

  1. Bug #1368301
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1368301

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TJ (tj) wrote :

A user with 12.04 + Trusty HWE to support RTL8188 is missing the matching firmware since it is not included in the 12.04 linux-firmware package; It is in the 13.04 and later packages.

modinfo $(awk '/10EC.*8179/{print $3}' /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.*) | grep ^firmware
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8188efw.bin

12.04:

/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723fw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723fw_B.bin

13.04:

/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188efw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723fw.bin
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723fw_B.bin