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Bug#658037: D-I tries to install Debian on my cellphone instead of loading the firmware



Hello Lennart,

Am 2012-01-30 17:49:04, schrieb Lennart Sorensen:
> So the working ones and the new ones are the same model (being x335
> means nothing by itself given IBM loves reusing model numbers on different
> hardware)?

Yes, they are all 335-8676

> It shouldn't ask since the firmware is built in so that you can boot
> from it.  Not like the network card.

Yes, but why does the D-I not ask for the tg3_tso.bin?   OK, the card is
even working without this Driver!  (I do not know, HOW this  works,  but
there is some basic funktionality and i can connect with 100 Mbit to the
network)

> Sometimes obscure hardware breaks in new kernels.  It happens and until
> someone with that obscure hardware tests it, no one knows it is broken.

Any ideas how to get this pig running?

> It looks a lot like a bug that was fixed in 2.6.32-12, but maybe it
> is different.  I seems it would have to be.

OK

> Len Sorensen

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack

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