accessing efivarfs in debian-installer

2016-05-24 Thread Francesco De Vita
Hello I have an ASUS T100TA [1] and I'm trying to use the wifi device with the Debian Installer for Stretch Alpha 5 . As explained here [2], the wifi device requires a proprietary firmware and its nvram-file, a UEFI configuration variable from /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. Loading the firmware in

Re: accessing efivarfs in debian-installer

2016-05-27 Thread Francesco De Vita
Hi On 25/5/2016 16:31, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Francesco De Vita (2016-05-24): > > So, is it possible to access the efivarfs interface and retrieve > > the required nvram-file inside the DI environment? > > I'm pretty sure we can do that from d-i since that'

Re: accessing efivarfs in debian-installer

2016-07-26 Thread Francesco De Vita
Hi On 27/5/2016 10:59, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Francesco De Vita wrote: > >On 25/5/2016 16:31, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> > >> I'm pretty sure we can do that from d-i since that's needed to get > >> UEF

Manual uSD mounting to provide missing firmware

2016-07-26 Thread Francesco De Vita
Hello I tested the Stretch Alpha 7 DI with an ASUS T100TA [1] whose wifi card is a Broadcom 43241b1 [2]. This device requires a firmware composed by two files that are requested by the DI during the configuration of the network: - brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.bin - brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt Due to the