On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 9:17 AM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:09:22 -0400 > Lee wrote: > > > My laptop is set to do a UEFI boot [?? I really don't know the proper > > terms]. Is there a "proper" place to get firmware from or should I > > just get it off the Ubuntu USB stick? > > And once I get the firmware, what do I have to do to get Debian to use > > that instead of > > the most probably broken firmware it's using now? > > Possibly all you need do is install the firmware package, > firmware-realtek, from Debian backports. https://backports.debian.org/
Looks like no. I added deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main non-free-firmware to /etc/apt/sources.list, fired up Synaptic Package Manager & hit Reload. The "New in repository" shows several firmware-xxx lines but nothing that mentions realtek. I also tried searching for realtek and the only match that mentions wifi was for the already installed firmware-realtek version 20230210-5 > Booting UEFI vs. BIOS should not be relevant here. Isn't UEFI booting supposed to prevent loading firmware from unsigned sources? Which is what I'm going to have to do if the firmware I want really isn't in backports? Thanks Lee
