On 2014-04-02 15:54 +0200, 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
That's the wrong place since this file might already have been rotated since the last boot, better grep in dmesg instead: ,---- | $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog | $ dmesg | grep firmware | [ 19.715265] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin' | [ 19.807476] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29 `---- Cheers, Sven -- 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/87fvlu8gmv....@turtle.gmx.de