Missing iwl5150-firmware package?

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 09:17:54 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:26:10 +0100
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Is there some reason we don't have a iwl5150-firmware package?  Or
>> > that /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode isn't included in
>> > iwl5000-firmware?
>> >
>> > Just asking because I was helping someone on #fedora get their Intel
>> > 5150ABN working, and it seems that this missing firmware was the
>> > reason it wasn't.  The firmware is available from
>> > http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=downloads.
>>
>> Seems like indeed nobody packaged it yet.
>>
>> Maybe John wants to add it to the iwl5000-firmware package so you
>> should ask him (cc'ed) first before actually submitting a package.
>
> why wouldn't this be part of the linux-firmware general "all firmware"
> package instead?

Yeah we should move all of them into linux-firmware and make
linux-firmware obsolete the separate firmware packages; but this
should be done upstream.


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