Re: sarge netinst with PCMCIA ethernet fails to install modules
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:12:29PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > Brian Dessent wrote:
> > > Hello, I'm trying to use the sarge netinst mini-CD to install Debian on
> > > a laptop that has a PCMCIA cardbus ethernet adaptor. The problem that
> > > I'm having is that while the first stage installer can recognise and
> > > activate the PCMCIA ethernet card, it fails to install the kernel
> > > modules for it, so that after rebooting and loading the new kernel from
> > > the HD, the card is not recognised and the network install cannot
> > > continue.
> >
> > Our pcmcia support is still very incomplete, so I'm glad to hear it
> > worked at all. The problem with pcmcia not being installed is a known
> > bug, #214492, though it may not include the detail below:
> >
> > > The base system that gets installed contains the pcmcia-cs package and
> > > the kernel-image-2.4.22-1-386 package (obviously), but NOT the
> > > pcmcia-modules-2.4.22-1-386 package.
> >
> > I plan to reogranise the pcmcia support so it fits in better with the
> > rest of the installer, but I may not have a chance to get around to
> > doing this for a while.
>
> Well, that's actually a relief to hear as I thought it was something
> that I was doing wrong. Does the woody installer suffer from the same
> problem, or is that a different beast? I was thinking of trying a woody
> netinst and then a dist-upgrade. But if that's known to have issues
> then I'll just bite the bullet and download the full ISOs with jigdo.
AFAIK pcmcia works in woody.
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