Am Sonntag, 26. März 2023, 12:23:48 CEST schrieben Sie: > [Resent to OP, please send any reply to debian-b...@lists.debian.org] > > Hello, > > On 26/03/2023 at 10:52, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > │ The missing firmware files are: > > │ > > │ brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.solidrun,cubox-i-q.bin > > │ > > │ brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.solidrun,cubox-i-q.bin > > │ > > │ brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin > > │ > > (...) > > > I copied all files from > > > > https://github.com/LibreELEC/brcmfmac_sdio-firmware > > > > on a USB-stick (ext3 formated, with vfat I got an error, probably the > > filenames were not compatible). I selected <Yes> but the same box showed > > up again and I assume no FW files were found (but it did not say so). > > At that stage the installer may not support any filesystem other than > FAT and ISO 9660. Also the current search algorithm for loose firmware > files is very poor. > > What error did you have with vfat ? I can successfully create files with > these names on a vfat filesystem so I doubt filenames are the culprit.
Many thanks for your quick response. I looked in it in more detail: There are many symlinks in the repo and I used Dolphin (KDE filemanager) to copy the data. It complained and pointed to a potential permission issue, but reading the error message more carefully reveals that it is not a permission issue, but it could not copy symlinks. If I do a cp on bash, the files are copied as (many identical) copies, i.e. symlinks are not preserved. I have not yet tested if that resolves the FW not found issue though. It would have helped me, if the installed would be a little bit more verbose and reported something like No non-free FW files found in these directories: <dir1> <dir2> Then it would have become more obvious that the installer cannot see the ext3 formatted USB stick. Thanks Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/