On Monday 16 February 2026 at 23:46:00, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> >
> > No one has answered my question: why do I need to have regulataory.db
> > and iwlwifi firmware installed in order to boot when on Ethernet?
>
> No you don't.
>
> However, if there is a wifi device on the system, then the kernel will
> want to install its firmware and complain when that fails for some
> reason.

Agreed, however "complain" should mean that a few messages pass by in the
kernel startup process, not that the machine entirely fails to boot up.


Antony.

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