Hi, Holger Wansing <li...@wansing-online.de> wrote: > I just did some testing and can confirm this problem with loading firmware. > > At first: > My Thinkpad T60 needs the "iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode" firmware file for WLAN. > And: > I use a usbstick with msdos partition table and one vfat partition on it. > > The issue is somewhat difficult: > > The Jessie RC1 installer for i386 can successfully obtain the firmware > from my usbstick, when I place the firmware packages from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/ > into /firmware on my stick (unpack the zip file into /firmware ). > This method works simply like "plug in the stick when prompted to do so, > press "Continue" in the installer, firmware gets loaded". > Please note: there is no need to mount the stick by hand or something > like that. Only plug in and go on. > > But when I place only the direct firmware file (in my case > "iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode") in /firmware or in the root directory of the > stick, the installer fails to load the file, unless I help him: > when I mount the stick by hand on the second virtual console, then go > back to the installer UI and press "Continue" to load firmware, it > successfully finds the file.
Now that I know the whole history of this bug (sorry that I did not noticed earlier), it seems that the bug title is not exactly true: when you place firmware packages (debs, not the ucode firmware files itself !) in the /firmware dir of the stick, then the installer is able to install the firmware from that stick (out of the firmware deb), even if it is a stick with a partition table and with a vfat partition. Holger -- ============================================================ Created with Sylpheed 3.2.0 under D E B I A N L I N U X 7 . 0 W H E E Z Y ! Registered Linux User #311290 - https://linuxcounter.net/ ============================================================ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org