reassign 617746 hw-detect retitle 617746 Should forget answer to hw-detect/load_firmware before asking it thanks
Quoting Adam Nielsen (adam.niel...@uq.edu.au): > Package: debian-installer > Version: squeeze (amd64/mini.iso) > > When detecting network drivers I received a prompt saying my network > card requires non-free firmware and to please supply it. I chose > 'no' as I didn't have the firmware handy but then it said I had no > network devices installed so I tried to go back. > > I have been unable to get the firmware question to come back up > again, and now I am being presented with a list of network drivers > to choose from. When I select my card (bnx2) it just asks me to > select the driver over and over again, even as I keep selecting > bnx2. The status bar says to press Space to select but this doesn't > work, and when I press Enter on bnx2 it just comes up again asking > me for the driver. I select bnx2 again and it asks me again over > and over again... Once the question has been answered, it is not re-asked again. We could probably make hw-detect "forget" about the answer to the question. However, that will make preseeding of that question impossible. That's kind of a trade off, indeed. After all, you can always restart the install if you finally decide that you should have answered "yes" to the question.
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