How To Install firmware-ti-connectivity on Debian 12

Learn how to install firmware-ti-connectivity on Debian 12 with this tutorial. firmware-ti-connectivity is Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wifi and BT/FM/GPS adapters

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.