>>>>> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> writes:

Petter> [Peter Chubb]
>> 2.  This system uses broadcom NICs that need firmware.  I put the
>> firmware onto a FAT-formatted USB stick, but the machine does not
>> recognise the stick when plugged in.  lsmod on the console does not
>> show usb_storage in the list of loaded modules after a failed
>> attempt.

Petter> Could the problem be that the installer do not understand FAT
Petter> file systems?  Can you try with ext3 on the USB stick?

It's more than that -- cat /proc/partitions doesn't show the stick at
all.  I suspect that the USB stick wasn;t recognised when it was
plugged in.
--
Dr Peter Chubb                                  peter.chubb AT nicta.com.au
http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au          Software Systems Research Group/NICTA


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