Re: Potential problem with DFSG installations on NSLU2
Hi Martin
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:52, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> Can you try the following patch? I don't know how the firmware
> handling is done, but at the moment oldsys-preseed will use eth1 if
> /lib/firmware/NPE-B is not available. So for now we can simply skip
> the firmware question in this case, but I'm pretty sure this is not
> the right thing to do, so we have to look again at this after lenny.
> I've no idea how firmware is handled, so I hope joeyh can look into
> this.
I should have posted the log from the installer. It looks like
check-missing-fimeware.sh in the hw-detect package checks for and
loads missing firmware. I don't understand its implementation (yet),
so I can't suggest a better patch right now.
Aug 21 12:50:02 check-missing-firmware: no missing firmware in
/tmp/missing-firmware
Aug 21 12:50:04 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network
interface eth0
Aug 21 12:50:04 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network
interface eth1
Aug 21 12:50:04 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network
interface lo
Aug 21 12:50:06 kernel: [42949405.120000] firmware: requesting NPE-B
Aug 21 12:50:06 kernel: [42949405.190000] eth1: link up, 100Mbps,
full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Aug 21 12:50:07 check-missing-firmware: missing firmware files (NPE-B)
for ixp4xx_eth
Aug 21 12:50:13 main-menu[871]: (process:915): ip: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No
such file or directory
Aug 21 12:50:13 main-menu[871]: INFO: Menu item 'ethdetect' succeeded
but requested to be left unconfigured.
I'll try out the the patch later today.
Gordon
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