How to fix possible missing firmware warning during kernel update on Linux Mint
If you are running default kernel with your Ubuntu or Linux Mint installation, you probably won’t face this problem during kernel updates because all packages are coming from the official distribution sources. However, if you like to run the newest Linux kernels and update them using mainline kernel installer, you may get warning possible missing firmware during the installation. Few days ago I got this warning on my Linux Mint 20.3 Una while installing kernel 5.17.7. In most of the cases this warning won’t affect normal functionality of your Linux machine, but if you hate warnings, like I do, here is what you can do. I guess you regularly update your apt packages, but still new kernels may complain, which further means you may need even newer package. In my case I had to install linux-firmware package from Jammy Jellyfish , the newest LTS Ubuntu, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ...