On October 14, 2024 8:53:17 AM CDT, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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
There's definitely a newer version in backports:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-realtek
I'm not sure how to install a backport from Synaptic. Try following the
backports installation guide:
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index3h2
