Bloom wrote:Replying to a message of two months ago isn't a problem, I think.
This missing firmware problem only occurs with kernel 5.3+, so not with a standard Stable. You can get the warning with Testing or with Sid, or with Stable if you enabled backports and upgraded the kernel.
The extra Realtek firmware modules will find their way into the firmware-realtek package and then this won't be necessary.
Including the Realtek firmwares into your system by grabbing them from the kernel source location just serves to make the warnings disappear. It adds no problems for later on if you want to upgrade. In fact, each upgrade will overwrite the firmware directory tree and thus remove the grabbed Realtek firmwares, so you would get the warning again. Simply repeat the download commands after an upgrade.
If you'd rather not do this, that's fine also. The network card seems to work just fine without the firmware and the warning can be ignored.
I just wonder what the difference between git and debian backports would be, since I need lots of firmware (wifi, gpu, etc) that is not available atm from backports. And grabbing them all from git seems a bit FrankenDebian to me. But it may be totally ok.