Bug#530758: firmware-ralink: firmaware not installed by lenny install cd
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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