Bug#141166: boot-floppies: Network configuration should not use "auto" for PCMCIA network cards
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:35:37PM +0200, Patrik Andreasen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:34:50AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:25:35AM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > It would also be helpful to know which drivers were missing.
>
> Sorry this took a while, I took a couple of days off work to get my
> boat ready for summer. Anyway:
>
> I don't have /usr/share/doc/pmcia-modules* on my machine! However, a
> coworker did the same install I did on his identical laptop. This time
> we got the orinoco card working by switching to a second console and
> doing "modprobe orinoco_cs" (this was the card missing from the driver
> list), so the driver was there but not the listing. Since he was able
> to install via the pccard we also saw that no "auto eth" line wound up
> in /etc/interfaces. So it seems all is well, save for the missing
> menu-item. We used the regular bootfloppies (not the bf2.4 ones).
Did you choose the `Configure PCMCIA Support' step?
> Again, thanks for taking time to help me with this!
No problem, thanks for reporting (and following up).
Matt
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