Bug#618010: installation-reports: Debian 6.0 Netinstall - system freezes while detecting network hardware
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 2011-03-12
Machine: IBM ThinkPad T42
Processor:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 600.000
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts
acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2
bogomips : 1196.22
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:
Memory:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 2074268 kB
MemFree: 1564480 kB
Buffers: 58084 kB
Cached: 288776 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 259008 kB
Inactive: 204336 kB
Active(anon): 116708 kB
Inactive(anon): 4380 kB
Active(file): 142300 kB
Inactive(file): 199956 kB
Unevictable: 16 kB
Mlocked: 16 kB
HighTotal: 1191304 kB
HighFree: 776364 kB
LowTotal: 882964 kB
LowFree: 788116 kB
SwapTotal: 1646620 kB
SwapFree: 1646620 kB
Dirty: 20 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 116500 kB
Mapped: 60716 kB
Shmem: 4604 kB
Slab: 28812 kB
SReclaimable: 22760 kB
SUnreclaim: 6052 kB
KernelStack: 1840 kB
PageTables: 2944 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 2683752 kB
Committed_AS: 573356 kB
VmallocTotal: 122880 kB
VmallocUsed: 13556 kB
VmallocChunk: 96204 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
DirectMap4k: 32760 kB
DirectMap4M: 872448 kB
Partitions: This is an output of the current debian 5.x installation
$ df -Tl
Dateisystem Typ 1K‐Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sda1 ext3 36835176 17414848 17549160 50% /
tmpfs tmpfs 1037132 0 1037132 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 1032736 244 1032492 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1037132 0 1037132 0% /dev/shm
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O
Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM Thinkpad T40 series [1014:0529]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP
Controller [8086:3341] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052e]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
[8086:2448] (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC
Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE
Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:052d]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation
82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5]
(rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T41 [1014:0537]
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad R50e [1014:0559]
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Modem
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57]
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T42 2373-4WU [1014:0530]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
02:00.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus
Controller [104c:ac46] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:0552]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
02:00.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus
Controller [104c:ac46] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad [1014:0552]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
02:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Mobile) [8086:101e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM Thinkpad [1014:0549]
Kernel driver in use: e1000
02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306
802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0453]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [E]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
During installation of Debian 6.0 via Netinstall-CD the installation
process freezes every time it comes to detecting the network cards. The
freeze comes without any error messages or warnings (e.g. network
hardware is unsupported).
The T42 includes an ethernet and a wlan card (see extract of lspci).
I tried to install with and without ethernet pluged in (that is
connecting internet via an access point with dhcp by ethernet). In both
cases the system crashes detecting the network hardware. I also tried
different installation modes (normal, expert, gui installer).
(The machine info is provided by the current Debian 5 installation.)
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