How To Install firmware-ti-connectivity on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firmware-ti-connectivity
on Debian 12.
What is firmware-ti-connectivity
firmware-ti-connectivity is:
This package contains the binary firmware for Texas Instruments WL1251, WL127x, WL128x and WL18xx wireless network chips supported by the wl1251, wl12xx and wl18xx drivers and BT/FM/GPS chips supported by the st_drv driver.
Contents:
- TI VPDMA firmare (ti/vpdma-1b8.bin)
- ti-connectivity/TIInit_6.2.31.bts
- ti-connectivity/TIInit_6.6.15.bts
- ti-connectivity/TIInit_7.2.31.bts
- TI WL1251 firmware (ti-connectivity/wl1251-fw.bin)
- TI WL1251 reference NVS (ti-connectivity/wl1251-nvs.bin)
- TI WL127x multi-role firmware, version 6.5.7.0.50 (ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-5-mr.bin)
- TI WL127x PLT (calibration) firmware, version 6.3.10.0.142 (ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-5-plt.bin)
- TI WL127x single-role firmware, version 6.3.10.0.142 (ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-5-sr.bin)
- TI WL127x reference NVS (ti-connectivity/wl127x-nvs.bin, ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin, ti-connectivity/wl12xx-nvs.bin)
- TI WL128x multi-role firmware, version 7.5.7.0.50 (ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-5-mr.bin)
- TI WL128x PLT (calibration) firmware, version 7.3.10.2.142 (ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-5-plt.bin)
- TI WL128x single-role firmware, version 7.3.10.0.142 (ti-connectivity/wl128x-fw-5-sr.bin)
- TI WL128x reference NVS (ti-connectivity/wl128x-nvs.bin)
- TI WL18xx firmware, ABI 2 (ti-connectivity/wl18xx-fw-2.bin)
- TI WL18xx firmware, ABI 3 (ti-connectivity/wl18xx-fw-3.bin)
- TI WL18xx firmware, ABI 4, version 8.9.0.0.79 (ti-connectivity/wl18xx-fw-4.bin)
There are three methods to install firmware-ti-connectivity
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install firmware-ti-connectivity Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install firmware-ti-connectivity
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install firmware-ti-connectivity
Install firmware-ti-connectivity Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install firmware-ti-connectivity
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install firmware-ti-connectivity
Install firmware-ti-connectivity Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install firmware-ti-connectivity
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install firmware-ti-connectivity
How To Uninstall firmware-ti-connectivity on Debian 12
To uninstall only the firmware-ti-connectivity
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove firmware-ti-connectivity
Uninstall firmware-ti-connectivity And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firmware-ti-connectivity
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove firmware-ti-connectivity
Remove firmware-ti-connectivity Configurations and Data
To remove firmware-ti-connectivity
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge firmware-ti-connectivity
Remove firmware-ti-connectivity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firmware-ti-connectivity
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firmware-ti-connectivity
Dependencies
firmware-ti-connectivity have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firmware-ti-connectivity
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.