Bug#727204: cdimage.debian.org: unable to use e firmware file provided on a USB stick
Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
doing an install with the wheezy dvd live on a Toshiba Satellite L635 laptop
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
provide the firmware file bcm43xx-0.fw on a USB stick
* What was the outcome of this action?
I went into an infinite loop for network setting
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected the installer to be able to use the provided firmware file
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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