Bug#141166: boot-floppies: Network configuration should not use "auto" for PCMCIA network cards
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:10:27AM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
> Here is the information that I was able to get from the user:
>
> > > The interface xxx (xxx) seems to be a PCMCIA card. Is this
> > > correct?
>
> > No, I wasn't asked that. However, I suspect that my case is pretty
> > hard to take into account in an installation script, at least with the
> > current way of handling network cards (my understanding of this is not
> > the best admittedly, I'm a programmer of very little brain).
> >
> > These were the steps I took to install the system on a new, empty hd
> > (after trying to get the boot floppies to work with a usb floppy):
> >
> > I made a small dos partition and shuttled over linux, drivers.tgz etc
> > to that partition via diskettes. Loaded the kernel drivers from the
> > dos partition.
> >
> > Next I installed the system via http by using the eepro card in the
> > port replicator (although it's not really a replicator since there are
> > no ports on the computer itself. But I digress). Sometime around this
> > point I was asked if I wanted to remove the pcmcia drivers, since I
> > wasn't using them, but I said no.
> >
> > The reason I used the eepro card (I don't normally use the replicator
> > since it's large and in the way, the only badly designed part of the
> > laptop) was that I couldn't get the wlan card to work with the boot
> > floppies, there wasn't a driver for the orinoco_cs card that I could
> > find and the wavelan driver didn't work (at least not immediatly, so I
> > just went with what worked).
> >
> > Once I had the base system installed I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18,
> > as instructed by our sysadmin, and kompiled appropriate modules etc.
> >
> > Only after this did I start using the wlan and 3com pcmcia cards and
> > ran into the glitch I mailed to the list about.
> >
> > I hope this helps, and thanks again, I've got my setup working
> > smoooothly now.
>
> It looks like this could be a non-issue, and the installation scripts
> are fine. What do you think?
The boot-floppies don't prevent the user from borking their
installation after they have finished, nor should they. :)
The lack of appropriate drivers sounds like a bug, however.
Could you find out which pcmcia-modules package was in use?
Matt
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