Re: Potential problem with DFSG installations on NSLU2

["Gordon Farquharson" <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>]

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.
>
> Index: oldsys-preseed
> ===================================================================
> --- oldsys-preseed      (revision 55149)
> +++ oldsys-preseed      (working copy)
> @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@
>                                        INTERFACE=eth0
>                                else
>                                        INTERFACE=eth1
> +                                       if [ "$NONINTERACTIVE" = "yes" ]; then
> +                                               add "$FILE" "hw-detect/load_firmware" "boolean" "false"
> +                                       fi
>                                fi
>                        fi
>                        if [ "$NET_CONFIG" != "static" ]; then

The patch works.

Gordon

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