Ubuntu
linux-ports-meta package

linux-image-386 doesn't depend on linux-firmware

Bug #293501 reported by Jon Dye
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linux-ports-meta (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: linux-image-386

After upgrading to Intrepid and the linux-image-386 (version 2.6.25.2.3) kernel my USB WiFi dongle no longer works. It uses the rt73usb driver which requires a firmware file to be uploaded. The firmware is provided in the linux-firmware module (/lib/modules/rt73.bin) but the linux-image-386 package does not depend on it so there is no firmware installed for my device. The firmware used to be in the linux-ubuntu-modules package.

Other kernel pacakges do depend on the linux-firmware package (e.g. linux-image-server) but they don't suppot my processor.

Manually installing linux-firmware solved the problem for me (once I could find a long enough ethernet cable to allow me to download it).

This is possibly related to bug #283949.

Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in linux-ports-meta (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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