Bug#141166: boot-floppies: Network configuration should not use "auto" for PCMCIA network cards
Patrik,
As you can see below, we're trying to resolve any potential issues that
might be messing up the installation procedure. Can you provide the
information requested below? That is, could you check the version of
the pcmcia-modules packages on your system? You should be able to get
this information using the following commands:
ls -d /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-modules*
gzip -dc /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-modules*/changelog.Debian.gz | head -1
Thanks,
- Brian
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To: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
Cc: 141166@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#141166: boot-floppies: Network configuration should not use "auto" for PCMCIA network cards
Sender: Matt Kraai <kraai@lafn.org>
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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