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Adel Ahmed
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 1:56 pm    Post subject: 0 byte sized firmware files in linux-firmware Reply with quote

firmware installed by linux-firmware is zero sized, how can I resolve this?:

Code:
root@localhost $ emerge linux-firmware -pv

 * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20241210-r1' needs updating.
 * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
 * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 25.26 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild   R    ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20241210-r1::gentoo  USE="savedconfig -bindist -compress-xz -compress-zstd -deduplicate -dist-kernel -initramfs -redistributable (-unknown-license)" 0 Ki

Code:
root@localhost $ ls -lh /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
total 12K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723aufw_A.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723aufw_B.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723aufw_B_NoBT.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723befw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723befw_36.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 27 13:35 rtl8723bs_ap_wowlan.bin -> rtl8723bu_ap_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bs_bt.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 27 13:35 rtl8723bs_nic.bin -> rtl8723bu_nic.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 27 13:35 rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin -> rtl8723bu_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bu_ap_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bu_nic.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bu_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723defw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723fw_B.bin
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure, but don't disable USE=redistributable should probably help.
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