On 20140402_145422, Klaus wrote: > On 02/04/14 14:30, Paul E Condon wrote: > >Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP > >hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think). > >During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the > >effect that I might need to install non-free firmware and/or drivers. > >I don't remember the exact wording, and there was no opportunity > >to do anything but either 'go-back' or 'continue' , so I selected > >'continue' and the rest of the install completed without error. > >The issue of possible non-free (soft|firm)ware has remained un-resolved > >in my mind until today when I looked into what was installed in Aptitude. > >In Aptitude I see a number of firmware packages and none of them are > >installed, so apparently they were not needed, so why was the warning > >issued? Is there a place where this is all explained? Is there a generic > >set of drivers that usually work or at least can possibly work. And I was > >lucky enough to have them work, or what? I'm curious. > > > >TIA > > > Have you had a look in /var/log/syslog whether any firmware is > loaded, or whether any firmware is reported missing? > > grep firmware /var/log/syslog > > -- > Klaus
Two lines: Mar 30 14:32:50 pec NetworkManager[2898]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. and Mar 30 20:58:13 big NetworkManager[2843]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. which I guess are from two separate reboots. I seem not to have shut down between then and now. I don't think <info> means anything was loaded, but I have not yet learned how to interpret a syslog. Come to think of it: Isn't the binary code that is loaded into RAM at boot time pre-assembled when a new kernel is installed and placed in /boot/ and symlinks to it /vmlinuz and /initrd.img generated? Thanks for the tip, but I'm still puzzled. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140402155741.ga19...@pec.lan.gnu