Bug#607480: installation-reports: Ethernet Card Atheros AR8152

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

retitle 607480 installation-reports: Toshiba Satellite Pro C650: Grub installation fails
tags 607480 - moreinfo
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Hi,

Jean-Michel OLTRA wrote:

> During installation, the kernel recognized the wireless card atheros
> AR8152, but it's atl1c driver is not loaded. Loading the driver by hand
> did not change anything. The installation was successfull using the
> wireless interface Atheros AR9285. After having rebooted the laptop, the
> kernel was able to successfully load the atl1c module, and the eth0
> interface could be brought up.
[...]
> Date: 2010-12-17
[...]
> ==============================================
> Installer hardware-summary:
> ==============================================
> uname -a: Linux laurena 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Oct 30 14:18:21 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Yep, as Lennart noticed, that was <http://bugs.debian.org/599771>.
Should have been fixed in d-i by now by updating to a newer kernel.

[...]
> Grub could not be installed. But Lilo has been. I do not know why, and I
> did not investigate much.

Can you say more about this?  Are you using grub or lilo on the
installed system?

Curious,
Jonathan