Bug#655507: hw-detect: Improve handling of firmware with PXE installs

2019-08-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I suspect isenkram-autoinstall-firmware from the isenkram-cli package might be a good solution for this issue. See http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html > for some old notes on how to use it. -- Happy

Bug#655507: hw-detect: Improve handling of firmware with PXE installs

2012-01-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] One way to do this would be to look for the requested firmware files in the Contents file available from the APT mirrors. I wrote a script to test this approach. It is attached, and seem to be working fairly well. It is also included in svn for debian-edu-config. --

Bug#655507: hw-detect: Improve handling of firmware with PXE installs

2012-01-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.84 User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: debian-edu At the moment, when the installer discover that some missing firmware block is requested by a kernel driver, it will look on the installation media for firmware or .debs containing the firmware. This works