Bug#226730: Problem with wireless pcmcia network card and keymap
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 20040106 sarge-i386-businesscard.iso from
http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/
uname -a: Linux narco 2.4.23-1-386 #1 Sun Nov 30 16:49:14 EST 2003 i586
GNU/Linux
Date: 20040107 2110
Method: boot from CD, apt install with ftp
Machine: Dell Latitude CP M233ST
Processor: Pentium MMX 233Mhz
Memory: 128MB RAM, 4GB HDD
Root Device: /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1: Dell suspend-to-disk partition
/dev/hda2: 180MB swap
/dev/hda3: 3.5GB ext3 mounted as /
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01)
00:01.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160
[MagicGraph 128XD]
00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [E]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
An overview of the installation:
* choose a language screen
first line is (???? ??? ????? ????? (????? ?????
is this supposed to contain anything meaningful? The cyrillic and
chinese text is displayed correctly further down the list
* I chose Nederlands (Belgie). I always use US English on my PC's, but I
wanted to have a look at the translations
default keyboard that is highlighted is Dutch, this should be be-latin1
if you choose Belgium as your country
I have a uk keyboard on my laptop, so I chose that option
* network card: modules are in reverse alphabetical order. Is this
normal?
I chose orinoco_cs, since I have Orinoco PCMCIA card.
I then get a red screen: card was not found
Maybe PCMCIA is not working yet ? But after continuing network light
went
on and dhcp server was found
Question: It found my access point by itself (it's the only one around).
What would happen if I needed to enter SSID/WEPkeys?
* Bugs in the partconf nl translation
"paritities" should be "partities"
"Create ext2 file system", "Create ext3 file system", "Create reiserfs
file system" messages not translated
* After rebooting network was not activated!
* Configuring console-data screen is untranslated
I briefly saw an error flash by:
KDGKBENT error: Failed to dump keymap
I then expected to choose i386/qwerty/uk keymap, but it gave the error
several times and then tried to install mac-uk keyboard for some reason.
A bit later I was asked if I wanted the USB version of this mac
keyboard.
I tried to fix this manually with install-keymap on the console but it
fails with the same error.
Why didn't it remember I have a uk keyboard?
* Time zone configuration screen uses 'systeemklok' and 'hardware klok'
when referring to the same thing. It should only use one term.
linux is spelled with a small l
I always get Yes/No Ok/Cancel options. I expected these to be translated
as well.
I choose 'Europa' and get Australian cities!
Had to select 'Indische oceaan' to get European cities
* password for root dialog screen not translated
type password again is translated
"dag-dagelijks" should be "dagdagelijks"
user account screen is untranslated
several dialog titles are untranslated
* it says "volgende stap installatiestap" somewhere. the "stap" in the
middle should be removed.
* why isn't the mirror I selected earlier remembered?
somewhere one of the occurences of "mirror" is not translated in
"spiegelserver"
network failure: apt couldn't contact server (network still isn't
active), so I had to switch to console and do /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
to fix this.
* exim4-config
several typos:
"emaill" -> "e-mail"
"afgelevert" -> "afgeleverd"
"Allle" -> "Alle"
"e-mail" en "E-mail" are both used -> pick one and stick to it
exim4-config asks a lot of questions... If I choose local delivery, why
does it want a list of IP addresses to listen on?
Install finished!
* kernel still gives me problems with networking and keymap. I had
unstable running on this machine before the install, so I try to install
the self-compiled kernel package I was using then. When installing this,
the lilo installation part fails because it can't find /initrd.img. It
was already renamed to initrd.old on the disk, but lilo.conf still
refered to initrd.img.
I also have a warning about /proc/partitions using ide/host0/... and
lilo.conf having /dev/hda
I manually fixed lilo.conf and rebooted
The old kernel still doesn't solve keymap and network problems...
My keyboard is set to us instead of uk, and I have to run either
/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart or /etc/init.d/networking restart to get it
to work.
I can provide dmesg output or the debian-installer logs if needed.
Greetings,
Bastiaan
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Bastiaan Van Eeckhoudt
bastiaan[at]vaneeckhoudt[dot]net
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