On Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 15:06 Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:
I dove into my download with mc, and it's actually a webpage with some > binary listing! No wonder it didn't work. I tried different websites > and got a 62768 byte file. I switched from Pale Moon (a Firefox fork) to > Google Chrome for linux... 62768 bytes. Even wget got me a 62768 byte > file. What's going on??? > Some file repositories have misleading URLs. Try going to https://github.com/torvalds/linux, right-clicking on ".gitignore" and clicking "Copy link" or "Save link as...". If you copied the link, you would've gotten " https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/.gitignore";. If you chose to save it, your browser would've downloaded a file called ".gitignore". Seems innocuous enough. What you actually get is just a web page. The actual file is often accessible from a link labeled "Raw", which leads to the actual file (at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/.gitignore in this case). By the way, you should really just use the linux-firmware package if it has the firmware you need. You can plug the name of the firmware into https://portagefilelist.de to check if it does. >
