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Bug#707144: initramfs-tools: fails to include firmware



[please reply to all, not just to me]

On Tue, May  7, 2013 at 22:50:09 +0200, Sebastian Dalfuß wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:19:12PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Why would you need firmware for a wireless driver in initramfs?  Root on
> > nfs over wifi doesn't sound like a sane thing to do, somehow.
> 
> With the firmware not beeing present during boot, I got a kernel error 
> message about firmware not beeing found, instead of working wifi.
> That's why it seemed that the firmware belongs into initramfs. Putting 
> the firmware into initramfs solved the problem.
> 
The wireless driver isn't supposed to be in initramfs either...

Cheers,
Julien

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