trouble with networking on T40

2013-03-31 Thread Chris Frey
Hi, I'm having a rough time trying to get the non-free firmware to load automatically in the debian wheezy rc1 installer, when installing on a ThinkPad T40. According to the documentation I've read, all I should need to do is download the firmware.tar.gz file and put it on a USB key. I've used

Re: trouble with networking on T40

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Shuler
On 03/31/2013 02:08 PM, Chris Frey wrote: According to the documentation I've read, all I should need to do is download the firmware.tar.gz file and put it on a USB key. This is not correct. Do I need to put this file in a special directory? Yes: To prepare a USB stick (or other medium like

Re: trouble with networking on T40

2013-03-31 Thread Chris Frey
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:13:31PM -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: On 03/31/2013 02:08 PM, Chris Frey wrote: Do I need to put this file in a special directory? Yes: To prepare a USB stick (or other medium like a hard drive partition, or floppy disk), the firmware files or packages must be