reassign 491712 ethdetect
retitle 491712 firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect
thanks
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:45:10AM -0400, Joey wrote:
> The wifi is iwl4965, and something didn't quite work in the firmware
> loading code. I had the firmware on the USB stick, attached, but was not
> prompted for it until after netcfg had run. (So the hw-detect run in
> disk-detect). I told it to install firmware, but did not see anything in
> /lib/firmware afterwards. Did see some codepage errors in the syslog. No
> error message displayed to me. Installed via ethernet.
Wild guess after having a look at the log: is the firmware only
requested when trying to brought the interface up?
This would explain why the firmware is only asked during disk-detect:
1. ethdetect loads the iwl driver,
2. netcfg tries to up the interface, which fails as the firmware is
missing, but iwl firmware is added to missing-firmware,
3. disk-detect runs and ask for the iwl firmware.
If you still have access to the necessary hardware, can you look how far
I am from what is really happening?
If something close happens, we probably need to find a way to "up" then
"down" every interfaces in ethdetect, just to be sure that we have the
necessary firmware.
Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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