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[24.31.245.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k2sm4555789oih.38.2019.09.09.08.38.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Fwd: Asus x540m - RTL8723befw.bin and rtl8723befw_36.bin To: Joerg Kampmann , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: kyle@kernel.org References: <12353dc2-5beb-7d65-54ee-5dd6cdd4fc47@ibk-consult.de> From: Larry Finger Message-ID: <746c6c58-04a1-42b6-9657-197677d173cd@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 10:38:04 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <12353dc2-5beb-7d65-54ee-5dd6cdd4fc47@ibk-consult.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On 9/9/19 9:32 AM, Joerg Kampmann wrote: > Hallo I just posted a remark on Github concerning the above firmware! I applied > it on Debian 10 (buster) Linux ... Any idea on the causes of the fault? > *firmware is too big* > > The machine is a notebook from ASUS: X540M - this notebook has only 3 USB-slots > no LAN, no CD drive -- Debian buster requires during installation: rtlwifi/ No. Both those firmware files work just fine on my openSUSE system. The md5sums for the firmware are as follows: 1850c1308fbcd95e9f6a7f58ede1e35f /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin a2c544e90d41fa9097b18ba86f11bec9 /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin.xz bc828ddc6cd700abb79a8df5794bcf04 /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin 7c310f301623cf16211ef5b4a3a3078d /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin.xz The sizes for the uncompressed modules are: 31762 /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin 30746 /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin Larry