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Bug#352758: -- installation: "etch" installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC



Hi,

Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:43:59AM EST, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 17 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > Could you try to find out if the firmware is non-free?
> > > Could it be included in the debian-archive?
> 
> > In unstable it looks to be included in the firmware-linux-free package, but 
> > with a changed extension:
> 
> > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=3CCFEM556&mode=filename&suite=unstable&arch=any
> > 
> > Note that that file is based on the 2.6.32 kernel, not on the 2.6.30 kernel 
> > used in current versions of the installer for Squeeze.
> > 
> > The fact that it does not exist in testing or stable could mean that the 
> > firmware is included in the module, but maybe not.
> 
> Since I have the hardware available and you probably don't, would you
> need me to download and test an unstable or experimental install in this
> respect?
> 
> If so, please provide a link where I could download an installer that
> might provide the firmware in one form of another.

Now, that Frans pointed me to the firmware-linux-free package:

this package contains the firmware file 3CCFEM556.cis, which is binary
identically to the file 3CCFEM556.dat, which was included in the etch-version
of pcmcia-cs.
So, I think, the firmware could be independent from the kernel version.

Chris: could you try the daily build of the squeeze installer (you had already
downloaded and tested it, but with no luck) and if you come to the point where 
firmware is needed, provide the 3CCFEM556.cis from here

http://ftp.ee.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/firmware-linux-free_2.6.32-5_all.deb

via an usb-stick or something like that?
(unpack the deb file with "dpkg -x <filename>", to get the 3CCFEM556.cis file)



Question is:
could the firmware from the firmware-linux-free package be included in the
installer by default?
This firmware is DFSG free, and the contained firmware needs only 76KB of space.


Holger


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