Hi Martin On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:52, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you try the following patch? I don't know how the firmware > handling is done, but at the moment oldsys-preseed will use eth1 if > /lib/firmware/NPE-B is not available. So for now we can simply skip > the firmware question in this case, but I'm pretty sure this is not > the right thing to do, so we have to look again at this after lenny. > I've no idea how firmware is handled, so I hope joeyh can look into > this. I should have posted the log from the installer. It looks like check-missing-fimeware.sh in the hw-detect package checks for and loads missing firmware. I don't understand its implementation (yet), so I can't suggest a better patch right now. Aug 21 12:50:02 check-missing-firmware: no missing firmware in /tmp/missing-firmware Aug 21 12:50:04 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth0 Aug 21 12:50:04 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth1 Aug 21 12:50:04 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface lo Aug 21 12:50:06 kernel: [42949405.120000] firmware: requesting NPE-B Aug 21 12:50:06 kernel: [42949405.190000] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Aug 21 12:50:07 check-missing-firmware: missing firmware files (NPE-B) for ixp4xx_eth Aug 21 12:50:13 main-menu[871]: (process:915): ip: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Aug 21 12:50:13 main-menu[871]: INFO: Menu item 'ethdetect' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. I'll try out the the patch later today. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
