[SOLVED] Realtek - missing firmware in Bullseye

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[SOLVED] Realtek - missing firmware in Bullseye

#1 Post by majpooper »

I am pretty sure I have covered all the bases but can't seem to get my wi-fi up and running in Bullseye although it ran with no issues in Buster.

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 
           Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
           
           Network:   Device-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: e000 bus ID: 06:00.0 
           IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel 
           port: d000 bus ID: 07:00.0 
           IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 

1. My sources.list are all contrib nonfree
2. I did successfully install the realtec driver for RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
3. just to make sure I reinstalled initramfs-tools ( firmware for Realtek Ethernet, wifi and Bluetooth adapters supported by various drivers)
4. did sudo apt install -y firmware-realtek

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majpooper@1150z:~$ sudo apt install -y firmware-realtek
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
firmware-realtek is already the newest version (20210315-3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I do get this output for dmesg which I don't understand what rt2860.bin is

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majpooper@1150z:~$ sudo dmesg
[    5.834720] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'
[    5.834743] rt2800pci 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load rt2860.bin (-2)
[    5.834746] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[    5.834748] rt2800pci 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for rt2860.bin failed with error -2
[    5.835246] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'
[    5.835258] rt2800pci 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load rt2860.bin (-2)
[    5.835260] rt2800pci 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for rt2860.bin failed with error -2
[    5.848532] audit: type=1400 audit(1634409334.017:21): apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="/usr/sbin/cups-browsed" pid=843 comm="cups-browsed" capability=23  capname="sys_nice"
[    8.054195] usb 2-2: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
[    8.126242] usb 2-2: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
[    8.605094] r8169 0000:07:00.0 enp7s0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
[    8.605114] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp7s0: link becomes ready
[   13.604812]  sdg: sdg1
[   13.639465] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI disk
[   13.639728] ses 7:0:0:1: Attached Enclosure device
[   38.889856] FAT-fs (sdh1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[   38.900484] FAT-fs (sdj1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[   38.949495] EXT4-fs (sdi1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   38.988525] EXT4-fs (sdk1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   39.007603] EXT4-fs (sdk2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   64.966445] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'
[   64.966482] rt2800pci 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load rt2860.bin (-2)
[   64.966490] rt2800pci 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for rt2860.bin failed with error -2
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Re: Realtek - missing firmware in Bullseye

#2 Post by FreewheelinFrank »

rt2860.bin is in firmware-misc-nonfree. Have you got it?

https://packages.debian.org/buster/firm ... sc-nonfree

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Re: Realtek - missing firmware in Bullseye

#3 Post by majpooper »

FreewheelinFrank wrote: 2021-10-16 19:10 rt2860.bin is in firmware-misc-nonfree. Have you got it?

https://packages.debian.org/buster/firm ... sc-nonfree
THX much - that was the missing piece - in my case
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fi ... sc-nonfree

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