Installing Atheros drivers

[flakmoppen]

I added non-free to the end of the repository list so i could install my Atheros wifi with apt install firmware-atheros
But when I do, it tries to remove proxmox-ve, pve-firmware and pve-kernel-5.4.

Output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  proxmox-ve pve-firmware pve-kernel-5.4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firmware-atheros
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/4,011 kB of archives.
After this operation, 185 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

Not really sure of what's going on here.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Not really sure of what's going on here.

pve ships its own firmware package 'pve-firmware' - which gets built from the pve-kernel sources.
Since this contains firmware files which are shipped in other packages in the stock debian repositories the pve-package conflicts with those - see `apt show pve-firmware`.

Do you need to install the firmware-atheros package? Maybe the firmware is already shipped in pve-firmware
(check `dmesg` for messages related to your wifi-nic)

I hope this helps!

 

[flakmoppen]

Do you need to install the firmware-atheros package?

Apparently I didn't. It turned out that I forgot to set up IOMMU on that machine and now I feel like a fool.
Thanks for the quick reply and the explanation.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

No need to feel like a fool! Such things happen (to me more often than I remember

Glad you found the issue!