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

Lars Hallberg lah at micropp.se
Thu Apr 12 06:21:28 UTC 2007


Peter Garrett skrev:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:27:02 +0200
> Lars Hallberg <lah at micropp.se> wrote:
> 
>> 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???
> 
> It is trying to find the firmware for a Broadcom wifi card - and it will
> not, because the nice folks at Broadcom keep it a secret ;-)
> 
> To get the bcm43xx driver working, you need the firmware. The easiest way
> to get it is to look at
> 
> http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/dapper-cafuego/bcm43xx/

Thanks, the error messages is gone :-) ... But the 'hang' is still there 
:-(, probably unrelated to wifi... Now it 'hang' directly after:

   * Activating swapfile swap...        [OK]
/etc/rsS.d/S40ifrename: 19: /sbin/ifrename not found
   * Configurating network interfaces...

And... Ctrl-alt-delete (!) still make the boot continue (!)...

figure out the ifrename error tonight... now of to work.

/LaH





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