linux-wlan...rmware-deb(1)

📦 version 0.2.9, in ubuntu jammy

✨ NAME ✨

linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb — bestie, this is the little script that builds you a deb package stuffed with firmware for all the devices that linux-wlan-ng supports 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb

That's it. No flags, no args, no options, no drama. Just run it 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the tea ☕ — when you run this script, it builds a deb package right there in your current directory, and that package is named:

linux-wlan-ng-firmware-files_0.2.9+dfsg-6_all.deb

Now, why does this whole situation exist? Because the firmware files that the linux-wlan-ng driver needs are not freely redistributable 😭 so they literally cannot be shipped inside Debian. But — plot twist — the upstream authors do include them in their pristine tarball 🙈

So this script goes and downloads that tarball for you, and then uses the stuff sitting in:

/usr/share/linux-wlan-ng-firmware/debian

to build a package containing those firmware files. It's giving "we can't ship it but we can absolutely hand you the recipe" energy, and honestly? iconic 👑

💖 AUTHOR 💖

This very minimal man page was written by Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@users.sourceforge.net> for Debian — but like, other people are totally allowed to use it too, no gatekeeping here 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this lil cutie lives in the General Commands Manual as linux-wlan...rmware-deb(1) — go build some firmware, you absolute main character 🌈✨

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