On Samstag, 17. August 2019 04:12:41 CEST Larry Finger wrote:
On 8/16/19 12:57 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:53:23 +0200,
Michal Suchánek wrote:
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:50:53 +0200
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote: [...]
How many packages are used for wifi firmware?
If this firmware is missing for a new wireless NIC, then recovery is not trivial.
The assertion made earlier was that modern, cheap USB wireless devices do not need external firmware. That does not match my experience. Of all the wireless devices that I have, only wireless G devices do not need external firmware, and I doubt that people are buying these for emergency backup.
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(And how often does it happen nowadays? Most of cheap USB network devices run fine without firmware...)
^ Wired ethernet. The same is also true for any Android phone in tethering mode. The biggest offender for wifi firmware size probably is iwlwifi which is 106 MByte currently, b43 and rtlwifi are both ~1 MByte each. Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019