Hello Era, AFAIU Unity https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity is more of a desktop environment and has nothing to do with this issue.
There currently is no package named linux-firmware-free for Ubuntu on launchpad to reopen any bug. The Ubuntu packages are called linux- firmware and linux-firmware-nonfree. linux-firmware: This package provides firmware used by Linux kernel drivers. linux-firmware-nonfree: This package provides non-free firmware used by Linux kernel drivers. Most of the firmware in this package is for television tuner cards. However, non-free firmware for other classes of devices are provided as well. We assumed that these were maintained in sync and that linux-firmware was only supposed to contain the free-software firmware while all proprietary firmware should have went do linux-firmware-nonfree. Based on that assumption this report was opened, stating that the proprietary intel firmware should be part of linux-firmware-nonfree instead of linux-firmware. But instead linux-firmware contains all firmware from the upstream linux-firmware package, while linux-firmware-nonfree contains further non-free firmware which is not in the linux-firmware upstream package. Since this is not just a single misplaced firmware but linux-firmware contains all firmware from upstream, including all the other proprietary firmware, I believe that this report is the wrong place to track the issue in, as it is specific to certain intel wireless firmware blobs. Instead I would consider opening a new issue against the linux-firmware package to address all non-free firmware. Then possibly opening an upstream report and link to it. It may also be helpful to ask for the linux-firmware-nonfree package to be renamed to linux-firmware-extra- nonfree to hopefully avoid future confusion. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179139 Title: Intel Wireless Restrictions: ipw2100, ipw2200 are not Free To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/179139/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
