Bug#689416: Re: Bug#689416: Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card

[jaakov jaakov]

The files you have written have different names, namely, g2a is a part of the file names. The installer asks for files without g2a. Are you asking me to try the files as they are or to rename them before?

Jaakov.

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[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 02:28:43AM +0400, jaakov jaakov wrote:
>
> The files you have written have different names, namely, g2a is a part of the file names. The installer asks for files without g2a. Are you asking me to try the files as they are or to rename them before?

Don't rename the files! Find the ones it's asking for.

Ben.

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[Simon Paillard]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 01:41:03PM +0400, jaakov jaakov wrote:
[..]
> >The maintainer may modify the wording so that you can find the file easier, in
> >case one doesn't read doc and don't download firmware.tar.gz...
>
> I did all that. But I did not get that the installation could continue
> anyway. And you did not get what file are exactly asked for.

That's the kind of information useful in a bug report "despite getting files
from firmware.tar.gz downloaded from ..".

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[jaakov jaakov]

severity 689416 important
retitle 689416 Nonexistant files are asked for on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card
thanks

Well, now the files

firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb
iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode

are in the root directory of an additional USB stick and the installer seems to find iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode.

However, as before, the installer still complaints about the missing
iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode
iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode

Actually, it turns out that despite complaints the wireless works.

> The maintainer may modify the wording so that you can find the file easier, in
> case one doesn't read doc and don't download firmware.tar.gz...
>

> So downgrading severity.

I did all that. But I did not get that the installation could continue anyway. And you did not get what file are exactly asked for.

Thus, upgrading severity.

Jaakov.

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Processing commands for con...@bugs.debian.org:

> severity 689416 important
Bug #689416 [firmware-iwlwifi] Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card
Severity set to 'important' from 'normal'

> retitle 689416 Nonexistant files are asked for on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card

Bug #689416 [firmware-iwlwifi] Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card
Changed Bug title to 'Nonexistant files are asked for on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card' from 'Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card '
> thanks
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[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 13:41 +0400, jaakov jaakov wrote:
> severity 689416 important
> retitle 689416 Nonexistant files are asked for on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card
> thanks
>
> Well, now the files
>
> firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb
> iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
> iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
> iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
>
> are in the root directory of an additional USB stick and the installer
> seems to find iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode.
>
> However, as before, the installer still complaints about the missing
> iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode
> iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode
>
> Actually, it turns out that despite complaints the wireless works.

[...]

The iwlwifi driver currently supports firmware API versions 4-6 for
these devices. It will request the file for the latest supported
version and then fall back to earlier versions. However, the latest
version that has actually been released is 4, so we expect the requests
for versions 6 and then 5 to fail.

I assume the installer reports any failed request, and it is probably
not easy to detect that this failure is harmless. Therefore I've
committed a patch to the driver which we can carry until this is sorted
out upstream.

Ben.

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