I have included the firmware in initrd and repacked the same as mentioend under http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware and recreated the ISO. After installation I see the following :
user@myhost:/$ <myhost@noiclt22572:/$> dmesg | grep bnx2 [ 1.406185] Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.0.3 (Dec 03, 2009) [ 1.406212] bnx2 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 1.406536] bnx2 0000:04:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw [ 1.420742] bnx2 0000:04:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-5.0.0.j3.fw [ 1.424689] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 1.425081] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw [ 1.430974] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-5.0.0.j3.fw [ 9.447544] bnx2 0000:04:00.0: irq 34 for MSI/MSI-X [ 9.552008] bnx2: eth0: using MSI [ 9.560738] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: irq 35 for MSI/MSI-X [ 9.657533] bnx2: eth1: using MSI [ 12.720974] bnx2: eth1 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex, receive & transmit flow control ON [ 12.818878] bnx2: eth0 NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex and drivers are installed and link is operational, but at the time of installation it just says 'no network interface is detected', at this point I have press continue and everything is okay. As this error message is annoying How can is tackle this ? Any suggestion ? On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ravi Roy <ravi.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Lennart for your suggestion and link, it is not solved yet. Is it > possible to disble the network detection using preseed ? so that error as > mentioned in the subject line does not pop up and headless installation does > not stop > > I use in preseed : > d-i netcfg/enable boolean false > > but d-i does not seem to entertain this statement. > Does somebody have any remarks / advice on this? > > Thanks > > --RR > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen < > lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:55:10PM +0530, Ravi Roy wrote: >> > Yes right, I want to supply this firmware to the installer. Probably I >> need >> > to unpack initrd.gz and add drivers binaries and repack the ISO ? I >> would >> > appreciate if you could go a bit of details about this ? >> >> I believe the intsall guide goes through how to provide firmware on >> a usb key to the existing installer. I think there might even be an >> installer image out there that contains the nonfree firmware. >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware has a link to the netinst image that >> includes the needed firmware. >> >> -- >> Len Sorensen >> > >
