Bug#740503: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that contains a partition table

2016-12-12 Thread Kjö Hansi Glaz
Package: debian-installer Version: stretch-alpha8-amd64 Followup-For: Bug #740503 Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I followed the steps at https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/ch06s04.html.en to put the required firmware for installing over wifi. * What exactly

Bug#740503: Fw: Bug#740503: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that contains a partition table

2015-02-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Sorry, later on I have noticed that the mail from Marcos Madeira was not a new bugreport (as I thought in the first run), but Marcos replied on an existing bugreport from Chris Bainbridge. So forwarding my answer to Chris, too. Forwarding my last mail against this bug:

Bug#740503: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that contains a partition table

2015-02-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: I just did some testing and can confirm this problem with loading firmware. At first: My Thinkpad T60 needs the iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode firmware file for WLAN. And: I use a usbstick with msdos partition table and one vfat partition on it.

Bug#740503: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that contains a partition table

2015-02-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Marcos Madeira tempaccount...@outlook.com wrote: Hello, I was trying to load the firmware during the debian-installer and I was just getting prompted over and over again for the firmware without success. Hardware: The device is a Samsung NP530U4B-S02 laptop with the Intel® Centrino®

Bug#740503: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that contains a partition table

2015-02-22 Thread Marcos Madeira
Hello, I was trying to load the firmware during the debian-installer and I was just getting prompted over and over again for the firmware without success. Hardware: The device is a Samsung NP530U4B-S02 laptop with the Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6230 802.11a/b/g/n . Firmware: The necessary

Bug#740503: debian-installer: check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that contains a partition table

2014-03-02 Thread Chris Bainbridge
Package: debian-installer Version: 7.0.4 wheezy iso Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Installing from debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that contains a partition table. When a USB drive with a single partition containing the firmware is