Hi. Yeah if the device is working ok then don't worry about it, it just means its using a generic open source version of the driver/firmware. If you want to fix this properly a good answer is here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/682990/linux-upgrade-debian-possibl... This will happen on Debian because the manufacturers mainly ship out binaries instead of the sourcecode for these drivers/firmware packages and Debian don't allow distribution of these closed source binaries, but give people a way to add it if they want. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Dengler Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 9:38 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Upgrading Debian I think that’s a NIC? Install linux-firmware-nonfree Bill Sent from my iPhone

On May 16, 2023, at 13:08, Steve Matzura wrote:

I thought I'd upgrade from 11.6 to the new .7 release. 'apt update' and 'apt upgrade' went OK, until right after "processing triggers for man.db,' when I got this:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-23-amd64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8125b-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8125a-3.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168fp-3.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8402-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169

Some Googling indicates it could be a video card. Since I don't use or care much about it, is it something about which I should continue to have a concern? My educated guess is no. Your thoughts?

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