[Bug 961282] Re: linux-firmware not installed by default in the installer environment

[Colin Watson]

As discussed on IRC, linux-firmware is intentionally not installed due
to being a .deb, but nic-firmware and scsi-firmware (which are .udebs)
are.

The particular issue at hand here has been fixed in the linux-firmware
source package (bug 944108).  If you encounter further problems with
files in linux-firmware not being available during installation, please
file them against linux-firmware rather than against the installer.

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  linux-firmware not installed by default in the installer environment

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Broadcom ethernet require firmware to operate. Without this firmware
  installed on the default image, the installer will not be able to get
  networking and halt prompting the user. This means that the ubuntu-
  server installation CD will be unusable on a large number of server
  systems, anything that uses broadcom ethernet. One way to fix this is
  include linux-firmware as part of cdrom-retreiver.

  Here is a snippet of the syslog from a failed installation:

  Mar 20 19:40:13 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth1
  Mar 20 19:40:13 kernel: [  101.680106] bnx2x 0000:01:00.1: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet (B0) PCI-E x8 5GHz (Gen2) found at mem da000000, IRQ 36, node addr 18:03:73:fd:b4:a6
  Mar 20 19:40:13 kernel: [  101.705273] bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:10574(eth1)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.0.29.0.fw
  Mar 20 19:40:13 kernel: [  101.705279] bnx2x: [bnx2x_func_hw_init:5382(eth1)]Error loading firmware
  Mar 20 19:40:13 kernel: [  101.705292] bnx2x: [bnx2x_nic_load:1823(eth1)]HW init failed, aborting
  Mar 20 19:40:13 kernel: [  102.056675] bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:10574(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.0.29.0.fw
  Mar 20 19:40:13 kernel: [  102.056683] bnx2x: [bnx2x_func_hw_init:5382(eth0)]Error loading firmware
  Mar 20 19:40:13 kernel: [  102.056696] bnx2x: [bnx2x_nic_load:1823(eth0)]HW init failed, aborting
  Mar 20 19:40:14 check-missing-firmware: /dev/.udev/firmware-missing does not exist, skipping
  Mar 20 19:40:14 check-missing-firmware: missing firmware files (bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.0.29.0.fw) for bnx2x

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