atmel_fwl command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

atmel_fwl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: atmel_fwl: command not found

Solutions to atmel_fwl: command not found

How To Fix atmel_fwl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu atmel_fwl is provided by atmel-firmware package.

atmel-firmware is:

The drivers for these chips in the Linux kernel do not include the firmware; this firmware needs to be loaded by the host on most cards using these chips. This package provides the firmware images which should be automatically loaded as needed by the hotplug system. It also provides a small loader utility which can be used to accomplish the same thing when hotplug is not in use.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install atmel-firmware

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install atmel-firmware.

sudo apt -y install atmel-firmware

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install atmel-firmware

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix atmel_fwl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.