Bug#572724: Squeeze installation failure on Itanium w/QLogic fibre channel adapter

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

tag 572724 pending
thanks

On Friday 05 March 2010, Jim Uhl wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
>
> This machine has two QLogic fibre channel cards adapters requiring
> 'ql2300_fw.bin', which the installer asks for.  Inserting a
> vfat-formatted USB pen drive with the Debian firmware package
> 'firmware-qlogic_0.22_all.deb' does not work.

Thanks for the report. I've made the necessary changes in or source 
repository.

Unfortunately daily builds for IA64 are currently not reliably produced, so 
it may take some time before images are available that include the change.
CC'ing the persons responsible for those daily builds.

Cheers,
FJP