Package: firmware-nonfree On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 22:13, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 09:48 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hello Ben, >> sorry to disturb you with this, but you might be my salvation :) > > Well, don't just ask me. You should use the debian-kernel list or the > BTS for firmware-nonfree.
ah indeed, sorry: I wrote to you personally since I saw several replies from you on the topic. Submitting the request on BTS with this email. >> I recently bought a laptop (HP dv6-2193el) which has an unfortunate >> NIC: Realtek 8168D. That's the nic that requires the firmware >> rtl81638d-2.fw to work. > > Does it actually require that? I think that that image is a patch that > fixes a bug in the original firmware. Currently the driver will still > allow you to use the NIC if the firmware image is not available. well, the NIC leds blink, but I can't connect to the other host, nor doing any other network operation. Ehm, what image are you referring to? squeeze alpha1 installer? >> Now, I saw some request for inclusion in firmware-linux-nonfree, but >> you said it's not possible since we still don't have a clear licence >> that allows for redistribution. >> >> What I'm actually asking you is: where can I get that firmware? I >> googled a lot without success, and also trying with some different >> net-installers (lenny, testing dailies @ 2010-06-26, squeeze alpha 1) >> none of them was able to correctly detect and enable the NIC, and >> without that, I can't go on with Debian installation. > > You would need to convert the array that was removed from > rtl8168d_2_hw_phy_config() here to a binary: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c8d71d6cd4746c075387b689506adb7256b3221a#patch10 if only I know how :) Thanks in advance, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimgpa_rubhbqflreih2dk-nlqzgqsgj71nnk...@mail.gmail.com
