[SOLVED] Possibly Missing Firmware for <multiple things>

SomeLinuxUser · 12-05-2020, 05:53 AM

Hi all, running Arch, have had the following flag up since installation several months ago and have never bothered to do anything about it. Most recently this has come up when doing a system update - sudo pacman -Syu

Any thoughts on why I have this collection of missing firmware? Should I just be searching for these things and installing from source?

Code:

==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: csiostor
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: isci
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: cxgb3
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: cxgb4
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: advansys
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ums_eneub6250

business_kid · 12-05-2020, 06:33 AM

Yeah, loads of firmware can go missing and it doesn't matter.

The key thing is - do all the little bits in your box work? If you have no wifi, no usb, etc, then it's a problem. If your box works, however all the firmware for the bits you do not have are not needed.

SomeLinuxUser · 12-05-2020, 11:15 AM

Okay great thanks, in that case I'll wait until I have an actual issue before looking to resolve.