Hi, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:29:37AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:43:13AM +0100, Laurent COOPER wrote: > >> Thank you for enquiries > >> > >> I made the i386 boot key with a 1G usb key, using the dd command > >> > >> (dd if=debian-8.3.0....i386 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M) > >> > >> I next use fdisk to create sdb3 and made a fat32 filesystem. Copied on it > >> > >> - the missing firmware with the deb file > >> - the missing firmware extrated from debfile in a /firmare subdirectory > > > >You did name the subdirectory /firmware I would hope. > > > >I think I always use the root directory option rather than /firmware, > >but according to the user guide either should work. > > Yup, I was reviewing and testing the code in this area last night and > I can verify that. > > >> check-missing-firmware could not load the ipw2200-bs.fw > >> > >> I thought it was possibly because it was on sdb3 and not sdb1 > >> > >> I could mount manually the filesystem with mount and read sdb3 although > >> > >> I copied the same file on a quite large usbstick (4G) with FAT32 > >> filesystem. All was this time on sdc1 > >> > >> didn't work neither > >> > >> Finally , after reading that fat was a first stage supported, but not > >> necessaraly fat32, i copied the files again, this time on a small 512M > >> usb key in FAT. > >> > >> This third time it worked.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740503 for a similar report regarding firmware loading. Holger -- ============================================================ Created with Sylpheed 3.5.0 under D E B I A N L I N U X 8 . 0 " J E S S I E " . Registered Linux User #311290 - https://linuxcounter.net/ ============================================================
