On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:46:05 +0100
Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
> 2009/6/28 john lewis <johnlewis@???>:
> > I had read about the Debian decision not to include firmware in
> > kernels but didn't really expect my ancient advansys scsi card to
> > fall foul of this.
> >
>
> You could of course just copy the firmware off another machine.
>
> http://popey.com/~alan/advansys/
>
> I've put the ones off my machine (running kernel 2.6.30 - but I doubt
> that matters). Try them.
Hi Alan
regrettably I still got an error when I tried booting the 2.6.30
kernel this morning
failed to load image "advansys/mcode.bin" err-2
so have now removed the scsi card and will try the usb approach if I
find I really need a scanner
Thanks for your help
--
John Lewis
using Debian Sid with windowmaker for a nicer desktop
