Bug#221272: installation-reports: No PCMCIA recognized/ cfdisk lockup
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: <Fill in date and from where you got the image>
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Method: <How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?>
Machine: <Dell Latitude CP M200>
Processor:200MHz Pentium
Memory:96M
Root Device: <IDE /dev/hda>
Root Size/partition table: <hda1 swap 256M hda2 / 1911M>
Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O ]
Configure network HW: [E ]
Config network: [E ]
Detect CD: [O ]
Load installer modules: [O ]
Detect hard drives: [E ]
Partition hard drives: [E ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The laptop has a PCMCIA ethernet card (3c575_cb module) which is not
listed among the network card choices. I did try 3c59x which is the
appropriate kernel-based PCMCIA modules, but had same results.
After selecting the option that none of the cards were appropriate,
the installer did a little more hardware detection, and then tried to
start cfdisk. The install ended in the error saying that cfdisk could not
open the disk. System frozen at this point; had to power down.
There currently is a debian system on the laptop (an expendable
system), and cfdisk has no problem seeing the partition table.
TRS
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hecke 2.4.22 #1 Fri Sep 12 10:17:26 EDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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