Firmware fix for Intel network card

Puppy forum member 'MerlinW' reported firmware missing for a Intel network card. The solution was to install 'iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode'. I have replied here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1049258#1049258

Yes, running "modinfo iwlwifi" in a terminal (currently using the 4.19.97 kernel) shows that the module wants 'iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode', which is not there. However, as 'Null_ID' reported by running "dmesg", the kernel falls back, trying to find an earlier version of the firmware:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=980167#980167

I cannot find the -6 or -5 versions anywhere, but the -4 version is available here:

https://github.com/OpenELEC/iwlwifi-firmware

I have created a PET, named 'firmware_linux_iwlwifi_6000_4-20200130.pet', and this will be in the next release of EasyOS (and EasyPup).

EDIT 2020-01-30:
Forum member 'ozsouth' posted this great link, with lots of firmware:

http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/linux-firmware/ 

...for when we have to find some more!  

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