On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:33:09PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:41:36PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > > The other day I tried to boot a Sun Fire 280R that works nicely with > > > kernel > > > 2.4.30; however, it didn't work, because the qla2xxx driver can't find > > > the firmware image, and it fails to load properly, meaning I can't access > > > the hard disks in the machine, and... flop. :) > > > > did you try to use firmware-qlogic? > > afaik it has the necessary hooks. > > Oh, nice, thanks. It does all the same. Someone should have told me about > it; I should file a bug on that package for having a completely useless > description: > > Description: Binary firmware for QLOGIC > This package contains the binary firmware for QLOGIC. > > apt-cache search qla2xxx returns nothing, and that's really easily fixable.
you want me to reassign this as wishlist against it? > But, the existence of that package doesn't really help the installation > system, or any other driver which uses udev firmware.agent. It would be good > if at least the firmware helper was added by default - it's trivially small > overhead, and it helps reduce confusion for people trying to roll in their > own firmware images and whatnot. well module-init-tools modinfo will get info about modules needing firmware than the helper gets added. that is an postetch item, there is a open bug repot against initramfs-tools tracking that. best regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
