On Monday 28 December 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > This problem looks similar to the one I had while trying to use a daily > build image on a PowerEdge R410. > > The network interfaces on these machines are supported by the bnx2 > module, but when no firmware is available, the driver does not register > itself for the device, and there is no `$devpath/driver` directory > available. > > The attached patch adds to `check-missing-firmware` another way to > determine the module by using `modprobe` and `$devpath/modalias`.
Thanks Jérémy. Looks good. I think the patch needs an added test that modalias exists, something like: elif [ -e $devpath/modalias ]; then And that long line could do with a split to the next line after the pipe. The "|| true" is probably not needed as the sed statement will absorb any errors from modprobe, but maybe there should be a redirect of errors: module=$(modprobe --show-depends "$modalias" 2>/dev/null | \ sed -n -e '$s#^.*/\([^.]*\)\.ko.*$#\1#p') A comment that the module supporting the device is the last line returned by modprobe would be useful. It's not quite self-evident. > Once this changes applied, it sucessfully prompted for the relevant > firmware files. Jurij: does this patch also work for you? Patch available at: http://bugs.debian.org/562594#39 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org