Can I remove the Intel Wireless iwlwifi firmware?
Issue
- Can I remove the Intel Wireless
iwlwifi
firmware? - We have systems with Intel AC and AX WiFi devices but we don't use them, we use wired Ethernet connections. Is it safe to remove the firmware packages? eg:
# yum remove iwl* [38/102]
Removing:
iwl100-firmware
iwl1000-firmware
iwl105-firmware
iwl135-firmware
iwl2000-firmware
iwl2030-firmware
iwl3160-firmware
iwl3945-firmware
iwl4965-firmware
iwl5000-firmware
iwl5150-firmware
iwl6000-firmware
iwl6000g2a-firmware
iwl6000g2b-firmware
iwl6050-firmware
iwl7260-firmware
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Intel Wireless (WiFi) network device using
iwlwifi
driver, not in use iwl
firmware RPM packages
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