fiesty: 'hang' during boot (firmware loading or after)

[Lars Hallberg]

Lars Hallberg skrev:
> I maid a 'manual' upgrade to fiesty by apt-get dist-upgrade so I don't 
> know if this is a bug or just my system broken.
> 
> The boot 'hang' after some failed firmware actions. Keyboard is active, 
> and I can switch console (but only consol 1 and 8 have output). Most 
> strange:
> 
> Ctrl-alt-delet *continues* the boot *sucessfully*. And then the system 
> aper to be stable and fully funktional (!) Networking works - but I'm 
> using the wired ethernet, not the built in wifi.
> 
> Would want to know if this is a bug or broken system, and some tip on 
> what can be added/removed/reconfigured if it's a broken system.
> 
> Some references:
> 
> HW:
> acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop
> AMD Turion 64 ML-28 (but i383 dist)
> ... ask for details.
> 
> The errors (handtyped) on consol 8 before 'hang' (first line for context):
>   * Activating swapfile swap...        [OK]
> /etc/rsS.d/S40ifrename: 19: /sbin/ifrename not found
>   * Configurating network interfaces...
> firmware_helper [4456]: main: error loading 
> '/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode5.fw'
> for device '/class/firmware/0000:06:06.0' 
> '/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode5.fw'

This file (bcm43xx_microcode5.fw) dos not seam to exist. not in the 
different kernel subdirs ether. But I'm not sure they are supposed to be 
in the root filesystem, possibly they supposed to be in the initrd.img???

help needed... TIA /LaH