Debian Bug report logs - #767064
firmware-iwlwifi: Where did iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode, iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode go?

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: firmware-iwlwifi: Where did iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode, iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode go?

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:39:29 +0100

Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 0.43
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu

When installing Debian Edu Jessie on a Thinkpad X200, we provide all the
firmware debs available from ftp.debian.org in /firmware/ on the ISO.
Yet a question show up asking for more firmware, as the files
iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode, iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode are
missing.

In the changelog for firmware-iwlwifi I find that iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
was added in version 0.15 to close bug #497717.  I find no similar
comment about the iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode files.
Were they ever part of this firmware package?  What happened with the
iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode file?  Is it possible to reinsert it, and perhaps
also add the two other requested files?

-- 
Happy hacking
Peter Reinholdtsen

Message #10 received at 767064-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

To: 767064-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#767064: firmware-iwlwifi: Where did iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode, iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode go?

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:35:41 +0000

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On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 09:39 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Package: firmware-iwlwifi
> Version: 0.43
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: debian-edu
> 
> When installing Debian Edu Jessie on a Thinkpad X200, we provide all the
> firmware debs available from ftp.debian.org in /firmware/ on the ISO.
> Yet a question show up asking for more firmware, as the files
> iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode, iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode are
> missing.
> 
> In the changelog for firmware-iwlwifi I find that iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
> was added in version 0.15 to close bug #497717.  I find no similar
> comment about the iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode and iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode files.
> Were they ever part of this firmware package?  What happened with the
> iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode file?  Is it possible to reinsert it, and perhaps
> also add the two other requested files?

The second number in the filename is the API version and the driver
usually supports a range of different versions.  It will request the
highest version it supports; then if that fails it will sequentially
request earlier versions.

I try to include only the highest version that stable, testing and
unstable kernels will request.  There is no need to add any others.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

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