I found another bug. If the installer ask to install firmware and you not 
insert the usb stick, but you press enter the massage comes agnain 
but it double the output wich firmware it need. Make the procudeur 10 
or 20 times an see the output message.

 Happy Hoildays

Am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2014, 14:27:52 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 21:28 +0100, Heiko Ernst wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I have test the installer from 22.12.2014. I can not install the 
Firmware
> > for my Laptop. The installer need iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode
> > iwlwifi-1000-4.ucode iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode iwlwifi-1000-2.ucode
> > iwlwifi-1000-1.ucode but only the iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode is on the
> > firmware-iwlwifi 0.43 and it works only with iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode. It 
don
> > ned the other firmware files on my installed system. Can you help 
me why
> > this is?
> 
> Each of those filenames is used for a particular firmware API version
> (*not* an exact version of the firmware).  The driver requests the
> filename corresponding to the newest firmware API version it 
supports
> (iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode in this case), and if that fails then it will
> request older versions.
> 
> The installer tries to work out what files are missing by looking for
> error messages about missing files, and as the driver requests all 
those
> files it will list all the files.  But really you only need one of them.
> 
> Ben.


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