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Bug#530758: marked as done (firmware-ralink: firmaware not installed by lenny install cd)

Your message dated Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:48:22 +0200
with message-id <20100911144822.GP3452@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line Not (really) a bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #530758,
regarding firmware-ralink: firmaware not installed by lenny install cd
to be marked as done.

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Package: firmware-ralink
Version: 0.14+lenny1
Severity: important


Hi there (and 'bonjour' from France)

I recently installed a brand new « Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 "Lenny" -
Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20090413-01:12 » on a « Packard-Bell EasyNote
MH-45 ».

This piece of hard includes a « RT73 USB Wireless LAN Card » that is
managed by the rt73usb module (and some other stuff like rt2x00lib)
At the end of the installation procedure (and after a reboot), the
modules are correctly loaded, but...

In spite of the fact I choosed to include "non-free" software, and also
that the installation procedure fetched packages from the internet via
the ethernet link, the package 'firmware-ralink_0.14+lenny1_all.deb' was
not installed.

I even ran an "aptitude update" and "aptitude dist-upgrade" but the
firmware package was not fetched and installed. I had to fetch it with
another machine since the ethernet link was broken (did not have enough
time to investigate more...) after reboot, copy it via an USB stick and
install it with 'dpkg -i <...>'.
All work fine now...

I think this is a bug because the wifi link was unusable since the wifi
card was not initialized.

Please note that this bug is not filed with the machine that caused the
trouble, so the information below may not be accurate (even if it also
run a Debian Lenny).

(French) kisses :))

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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--- Begin Message --- 
I think that what you experienced is not really a bug. As you
explained, you were installing Debian through the Ethernet
link....because the wireless card needs a non-free firmware package
(that can't be provided along with the installation media).

As long as you were installing with your Ethernet link, the installer
no longer had the need to check thigns for your wireless card...and
thus no opportunity/need to load its firmware and even more not to
download it off the net.

So, installing it manually later on seems to me to be the only option.



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