Comment 18 for bug 197819

Hi

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:27:27PM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hm, b43-fwcutter is supposed to download and install the firmware right
> away on package installation. Can you please test this with
>
> sudo rm -r /lib/firmware/b43* # or move them to a different directory
> sudo dpkg -P b43-fwcutter
> sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
>
> this wil completely remove and reinstall b43-fwcutter. Say yes (press
> enter) to the question whether to download the firmware. Does this fetch
> and install /lib/firmware/b43/ properly?

We already confirmed that synaptic reinstall does indeed fetch the
firmware.

Only restricted-drivers manager seem broken.

( Another problem I had was that synaptic did not respect
the proxy which I thought the installer put in apt.conf, so in
fact I had to ctl-c and do it manually. Synaptic however prompted
the user whether or not the firmware should be fetched, but then
it tried to directly connect to openwrt:80, not via my proxy set
in apt.conf, gnome-wide-settings, and synaptic proxy settings )

I just did a apt-get --reinstall install b43-fwcutter, and the
firmware was not fetched and the user not prompted for it.

Let's purge it first... OK, yes, now I am prompted, I choose yes,
and it uses the proxy in apt.conf. I don't see any terminal output
of the firmware extraction though... should it not show more?

regards,
Jan

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