On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:00:04 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:31:37 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>> >>>> Have tried to install Debian Squeeze (weekly builds 2010-11-08) on a >>>> laptop with Intel 2100 Wifi card. Card's firmware is packed into >>>> native debianic non-free tarball. As explained here: >>>> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200, it is enough to supply the tarball to >>>> the running installer on any removable media mentioned. But the >>>> installer first seek for fd0 floppy and seek forever, endlessly >>>> educating me about FAT16 file system, dangerous uppercase names and >>>> related troubles, as I have noticed at hidden F4 console. No single >>>> warning sign, progress bar or other useful info on a current active >>>> screen. As a countermeasure, I have searched my pockets, found USB >>>> floppy drive and wrote floppy diskette, plugged that into laptop but >>>> installer continue its tries for ghost fd0 and does not react on other >>>> removable media inserted in all sockets and holes. If you, please, >>>> help me to find a workaround to subdue that bad robot? Maybe it is >>>> possible to implant the firmware into installer ISO? And no, I cannot >>>> install using a netinstall image, because the installer does not >>>> support WPA and even if we will resolve firmware situation, the >>>> installation will not continue anyway. >>> >>> It should work. Or at least it is documented to do it so: >>> >>> 6.4. Loading Missing Firmware >>> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html >>> >>> Did you try by putting the firmware into USB stick (not floppy)? >> >> Yes, I did. It does not see the firmware on USB stick, looking on fd0 >> instead (or first, probably). Have tried tarball, firmware file itself, >> etc. > > How bad (and strange nobody noticed) ;-( > First, thanks for you time, Camaleón! Fortunately, I have installed Squeeze from weekly build 2010-11-15 DVD on my IBM TP R40. This time, after a pause and silent gray screen, d-i got the Intel firmware from USB stick and finally slept through. Thank god, I finally killed that Ubuntu bugware, which is endlessly warm up laptop hard drive. Squeeze installation log is attached, just in case. There is a lot of fd0 again, closer to the end. -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein
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