Bug#611032: debian-installer: Instaler does not prompt for loading firmware-ralink for Linksys WUSB54GC wlan card
- To: marcin <mircan@poczta.onet.pl>
- Cc: 611032@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#611032: debian-installer: Instaler does not prompt for loading firmware-ralink for Linksys WUSB54GC wlan card
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:37:57 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 2fl62ghu2dm.fsf@login1.uio.no>
- Reply-to: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, 611032@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <20110124225447.1599.144.reportbug__16191.0146977336$1295909842$gmane$org@mercury> (marcin's message of "Mon\, 24 Jan 2011 23\:54\:47 +0100")
- References: <20110124225447.1599.144.reportbug__16191.0146977336$1295909842$gmane$org@mercury>
[Marcin]
> Debian instaler does not prompt for loading firmware-ralink for
> Linksys WUSB54GC wlan card during the installation process. Even the
> unofficial version including non-free firmware did not install the
> firmware-ralink package during the installation. Consequently, in
> both cases (using the official installer and the one including
> firmware) it is impossible to access wireless network during
> installation.
I would guess this is caused by the kernel driver not requesting
firmware in a way handled by hw-detect. Can you provide more
information, like the output from dmesg when the driver is loaded?
I suspect this need to be fixed in the kernel and not in hw-detect,
but am not sure.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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