clone 497318 -1
reassign -1 hw-detect
retitle -1 check-missing-firmware: asks the same files again after refusing the first time
thanks
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:47:24PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Then there is an issue with the non-free firmware loading feature. d-i
> asks whether I want to load iwlwifi 3945 firmware at the right time,
> but then (maybe only when I deny loading it) re-asks for that firmware
> pretending that the HDD requires it. This is similar to #491712. This
> is not the first image I test that contains this bug.
If you answer "No" the first time, then the firmware will still be
requested later on, so the second time check-missing-firmware is run,
it will be asked again.
Looks avoidable by recording the firmware files that were previously
denied.
> Finally, the worst issue is detection of network interfaces. At first,
> d-i asks whether I want to try detecting Ethernet on FireWire, which
> is according to d-i something I would improbably use, or something
> like that, since no Ethernet interfaces were detected. This is
> abnormal, because I have an Ethernet card, a 802.11 card and a
> Firewire card on this machine. The Ethernet card, Broadcom Corporation
> NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02), works fine
> with Linux 2.6.26. I chose not to try detecting that, and if I
> remember correctly, the normal flow of d-i was then broken and I had
> to change some answers to continue. d-i wouldn't want to detect the
> Ethernet card even when indicating to use tg3. Later, d-i correctly
> showed eth0 (Ethernet), wlan0 (802.11) and eth1 (1394), but showed all
> of them as "Firewire ethernet". I can't remember exactly the sequence
> of prompts, but I don't mind reinstalling.
*sigh* I thought that we had fixed this in hw-detect 1.66, uploaded on
August, 26th.
Right at the begining of the installer, could you switch to a console
(Alt+F2) and use nano to add "set -x" to /bin/hw-detect and
/bin/ethdetect. Please send back the resulting logs (gzipped).
Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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