Re: [DNG] Ascii/Beowulf nonfree firmware
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:05:25AM -0700, 'smee via Dng wrote: > I powered off, removed and replaced the battery, and booted up again > and wifi works fine still. So it appears the nonfree firmware wasn't > needed for anything on my install, at least so far. By comparison, the wifi in my Thinkpad T420 requires the non-free firmware: iwlwifi :03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 AGN, REV=0xB0 -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orgEwige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #(sleep dream) (random 2))) -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Ascii/Beowulf nonfree firmware
On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 20:35 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi, > > 'smee via Dng writes: > > > Sorry to fill up everyone's inbox today with this subject, and > > again > > with this email, but I thought I'd add this last bit in relation to > > this whole thing. > > > > According to the ascii release notes, the nonfree firmware should > > be > > for the wi-fi driver. Maybe later patches included the addition of > > graphics firmware and/or other but I haven't run across anything > > saying > > so yet. > > > > I think it's noteworthy that I've tested my wi-fi adapter since > > removing them and it seems to work fine. I haven't run into any > > other > > issues either so far. > > You did do a cold reboot after removing them, right? > -- I powered off, removed and replaced the battery, and booted up again and wifi works fine still. So it appears the nonfree firmware wasn't needed for anything on my install, at least so far. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Ascii/Beowulf nonfree firmware
Hi, 'smee via Dng writes: > Sorry to fill up everyone's inbox today with this subject, and again > with this email, but I thought I'd add this last bit in relation to > this whole thing. > > According to the ascii release notes, the nonfree firmware should be > for the wi-fi driver. Maybe later patches included the addition of > graphics firmware and/or other but I haven't run across anything saying > so yet. > > I think it's noteworthy that I've tested my wi-fi adapter since > removing them and it seems to work fine. I haven't run into any other > issues either so far. You did do a cold reboot after removing them, right? -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Softwarehttps://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Ascii/Beowulf nonfree firmware
Apologies again, but I feel I should share one more relevant observation. The one thing that DOES appear to have changed since removing *nonfree is that the WICD icon disappeared from my panel (xfce, top right corner, default icon setting there). Seems relevant, again because it's the only noticeable difference so far. On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 19:29 -0700, 'smee wrote: > Sorry to fill up everyone's inbox today with this subject, and again > with this email, but I thought I'd add this last bit in relation to > this whole thing. > > According to the ascii release notes, the nonfree firmware should be > for the wi-fi driver. Maybe later patches included the addition of > graphics firmware and/or other but I haven't run across anything > saying > so yet. > > I think it's noteworthy that I've tested my wi-fi adapter since > removing them and it seems to work fine. I haven't run into any other > issues either so far. > > > https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt > > ### Non-free firmware > > All Devuan 2.1 ASCII install media make non-free firmware packages > available at install time. In the majority of the cases, these > packages are needed (and will be installed) only if your wifi adapter > requires them. It is possible to avoid the automatic installation and > loading of needed non-free firmware by choosing the "Expert install" > option in the installation menu. > > Devuan 2.1 ASCII desktop-live and minimal-live images come with > non-free firmware packages pre-installed. You have the option of > removing those non-free firmware packages from the desktop-live and > minimal-live after boot, using the "remove_firmware.sh" script > available under /root. > ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
