Bug#614054: netcfg: Debian-Installer hangs searching network wired card with firmware
Package: netcfg
Severity: important
We find several cases in which D-I hangs searching network wired card when it needs extra firmware.
If we unplug network cards D-I doen't stop in this step and continues the installation normally.
Later, if we plug again the network card and install non-free firmware from repository, it works.
D-I should ignore network configuration if you have a "firmwared" network-card and continue the installation.
Otherwise it is impossible install Debian Squeeze if you have a laptop with this kind of network-card integrated in motherboard.
All our cases are related with intel card and firmwares, here is my netcard:
Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 VE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f7df7000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at dec0 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e100
Kernel modules: eepro100, e100
Installation of Debian fail even in "expert mode" ignoring network-card configuration because in the next steps it says that it is necesary.
Greetings.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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