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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#38524: 'dhcp-client-service' crash when non-libre networking
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:11:41 +0100
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To: Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re>
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Hi Brice,

Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re> skribis:

> The 'dhcp-client-service' fail to start when a non-libre network=20
> interface (here 148f:3070) is plugged-in even though there is an libre=20
> networking interface (here 01:00.0) available.
> Removing the non-libre networking interface from the system allow=20
> 'dhcp-client-service' to start correctly on the libre networking=20
> interface.

By =E2=80=9Cnon-libre interface=E2=80=9D, I guess you mean a network interf=
ace that
relies on non-free firmware, right?

> $ sudo herd start networking
> [ 2758.305139] 1-3:1.0: Missing Free firmware (non-Free firmware loading=
=20
> is disabled)
> [ 2758.395791] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error -=20
> Failed to request Firmware
> herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'networking':

So here the problem is that Linux-libre fails to load the non-free
firmware.  Could you bring it up on the Linux-libre development mailing
list?

I believe Linux-libre aims to allow people who want it to use non-free
firmware=E2=80=94it just disables it by default.  Now, I=E2=80=99d encourag=
e you to
consider using hardware that does not rely on non-free firmware.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.