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Where do I put this .bin firmware file?

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HonNga
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Where do I put this .bin firmware file?

#1 Post by HonNga »

new to Debian and I have just installed 505 on an old laptop, and it's running sweet, I'm trying to get the builtin wireless lan to work and have downloaded the atmel_at76c506.bin driver but I'm not sure what to do with it at this stage, have installed network-manager too,

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Re: Where do I put this .bin firmware file?

#2 Post by craigevil »

You don't. Make sure you have contrib non-free in your sources.list then you do
aptitude install atmel-firmware

http://wiki.debian.org/at76_usb
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Re: Where do I put this .bin firmware file?

#3 Post by HonNga »

Thats great! THanks!

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Re: Where do I put this .bin firmware file?

#4 Post by bluesdog »

FYI, if you want to see where Debian installs stuff, use the 'dpkg' command in a terminal, with the 'L' switch, followed by the name of the package..

Like this: dpkg -L <packagename>

Example:

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dpkg -L atmel-firmware
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And, would you mind adding [SOLVED] to the subject line of your original post? Thanks.

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