Bug#220971: installation-reports: Trouble installing with ISA NE2000 network card

[Rune Holm <runehol@ulrik.uio.no>]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:45:46 +0100
> From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
> To: Rune Holm <runehol@ulrik.uio.no>
> Cc: 220971@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: installation-reports: Trouble installing with ISA NE2000
>     network card
>
> * Rune Holm <runehol@student.matnat.uio.no> [2003-11-16 00:09]:
> > This machine has a isa ne2000-compatible network card, which works with
> > the ne module provided by the net driver floppy. However, the installer
> > doesn't ask for module parameters when run with normal priority, and
> > there is no way to use the ne module without giving at least an io
> > parameter.
>
> So the "ne" module _never_ works (for anybody) if you don't at least
> specify "io"?

Nope. ne2000 is a standard for ISA network cards, and as d-i doesn't do
ISA probing (and it shouldn't do either, as this has a tendency to crash
machines), the ne module must have parameters to find the network card.

>
> If this is the case, module_probe() should take the debconf priority
> for the ethdetect/module_params question as an argument.  By default,
> it can stay "low" as it is now, but if the "ne" module is selected,
> this should be higher.


Yes, this sounds like a good idea.


regards,

Rune Holm