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Re: [gNewSense-users] Wifi
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Jason Self |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Wifi |
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Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:20:15 -0700 (PDT) |
> This specific release probably won't work: older kernels before -gnu1
> releases won't load this firmware since at that time it was nonfree.
There is a -gnu1 for 2.6.35 [0] but it's no longer a supported tree by
upstream [1] (the closest is 2.6.32 which is too old) so something
newer would be better so as to receive security updates, bug fixes,
etc. I have 3.4 and 3.10 currently as long term support kernels.
[0] http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/2.6.35-gnu1/
[1] https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html