From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>
To: Brian Masinick <masinick@yahoo.com>; 683690@bugs.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#683690: Debian 7.0 Beta 1 Installer cannot find network devices after 10+
minutes
reassign 683690 mountmedia
fixed 683690 0.21
thanks
Quoting Brian Masinick (
masinick@yahoo.com):
> Lenovo 3000 Series Laptop, Model Y410
> Debian 7.0 Beta 1 installer, CD-1, LXDE-Xfce Edition
> Ethernet tg3 driver
> Wireless iwl3945 driver
>
> System seems to load and start fine, but no matter which option (I've tried console, graphical, boot with LXDE, boot with Xfce), use expert mode, use standard option), all hang at the point of network detection, with the Ethernet wire connected.
>
> I am using this same system either wired or wireless with all other systems, including mostly Debian-derived systems.
This is bug #683690. Indeed quite probably a kernel bug but worked
around in mountmedia 0.21 (which is not in D-I beta1).