Bug#639728: Dell Latitude E6520: bad fstab entry, unsupported network controller

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>]

Hi!

Am 29.08.2011 20:10, schrieb Michael Gold:
> I had to connect an ethernet dongle because the onboard network port
> wasn't detected by the installer; the onboard port worked after
> upgrading to unstable.

FWIW:  I have the very same notebook (but the version without the nvidia
card, only the intel one). Network controler is reported by lspci as:

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 04)

Trying to install Squeeze, I found out, that it a) seems to need a newer
kernel and b) needs some firmware files. Using the unofficial installer
from kmuto at http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (I picked
squeeze-custom-amd64-0614.iso as that one also contains the needed
firmware file) worked for me.


Best regards,
  Alexander