Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card not found
eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
> Umm, actually, that's exactly what happened to me (after USB turned
> out to not be a problem): 2.2 uses the 2.2.17 kernel which doesn't
> support (or even identify as ethernet) the 3COM MiniPCI
> ether+uselessmodem card on the daewoo motherboard. However,
> installing 2.2.17 without net and then bringing in a 2.2.18
> kernel-image worked ok, I just had to manually net-config later (I
> didn't look too hard, but unlike other systems, debian doesn't seem to
> have a tool that would do "reask the network config questions"...)
No.
There is no such tool to ask the network configuration questions aside
from dbootstrap (the program that runs during install), and that is
end of life, and that is not available after install is done.
If someone wants to motivate the netbase maintainer or whatever to
write such a program, they should file a bug against netbase,
contribute a debconf template to do it, whatever.
Again, not a problem I can even address. I know people assume that
since boot-floppies helps with the initial configuration of the
network that we "own" the network configuration, but it's not so.
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