Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Tuhársky
Package: debian-installer Version: 20080522 I'm testing the Lenny weekly build 2008-07-21, and the installer fails to detect Broadcom network adapter, that Etch has had no problem with. I have several machines like this HP BL465, and Debian is anticipated to run on them, so please, fix the det

Re: Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Tuhársky
The installer should at least prompted you to supply a .fw firmware file. Did it do this? Well, I tested daily build from 20080729, and yes, the installer prompts for these files. However, I can't figure out, how could I give it to him. I have put them on the root of usb pendrive, they are exa

Re: Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Tuhársky
And as I'm looking at 492246, I also see the message "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystem, filesystem will be case sensitive!" I don't know of whether THIS is causing some problems. I can easily mount the USB pendrive manually however, by ordinary mkdir /media/usb mo

Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Tuhársky
ndrive. Anyhow, the partition of course resides on /dev/sda1, not on /dev/sda! So I don't wonder it fails. Peter (Please keep the bug CC'ed) On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:30:40AM +0200, Peter Tuhársky wrote: The installer should at least prompted you to supply a .fw firmware file.

Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Tuhársky
CC'ed) On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:30:40AM +0200, Peter Tuhársky wrote: The installer should at least prompted you to supply a .fw firmware file. Did it do this? Well, I tested daily build from 20080729, and yes, the installer prompts for these files. However, I can't figure out, how cou

Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-07-31 Thread Peter Tuhársky
ld this be some bad cycle design issue? Then, however, why would it succed when I mount the /dev/sda1 to /media manually? Peter Jérémy Bobbio wrote / napísal(a): On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 01:38:56PM +0200, Peter Tuhársky wrote: It seems for me, that it simply fails to mount the USB pendrive.