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beta990

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Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 207

[SOLVED] Do I need to reinstall firmware packages afer an upgrade?

Bit confused; I'd always thought firmware files (.fw) were separated from the kernel, so updating the kernel should not matter.
After a reboot I keep getting messages that custom installed firmware files (in /usr/lib/firmware) cannot be found, running # depmod -a and replugging the USB fixes this issue.

How to solve this? Is there something like DKMS for firmware files?

Thanks.

Last edited by beta990 (2017-08-20 15:10:29)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I need to reinstall firmware packages afer an upgrade?

Please post the error messages you are referring to.

beta990

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Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 207

Re: [SOLVED] Do I need to reinstall firmware packages afer an upgrade?

Please post the error messages you are referring to.

Found the user error!
I had linux-ck-headers and linux-ck-headers-skylake both installed, removing the first one fixes the issue.