Bug#234885: Install fails: No network driver (20040225)
--- Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:56:08AM -0800, Fabrice
> Gautier wrote:
> >
> > --- Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:00:09AM -0800,
> Fabrice
> > > Gautier wrote:
> > > > Package: installation-reports
> > > >
> > > > Debian-installer-version: daily 2004-02-25
> > > business
> > > > card and netinst. From gluck.debian.org.
> > > > Date: 2004-02-26 3am PST
> > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Output of lspci: n/a
> > > Please send that output.
> > > It contains information about the e100.
> > >
> > > Please also provide
> > > lspci -n
> >
> > > >
> >
> > I dont have access to the machine right now, so im
> not
> > gonna restart the install but I believe there is
> > everything needed in the first lines of the first
> > attachment...
> > (Granted there's only the text description, and
> not
> > the IDs, the IDs would be "Class 0200: 8086:1229
> (rev
> > 08)" for the eepro100 in this case)
>
> It are indeed the IDs that where missing.
>
> 80861229 matches eepro100 in the discover data.
> (
>
http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=pkg-discover
> discover1-data the file pci.lst )
>
>
> The eepro100 module is in
>
kernel/linux-kernel-di/modules/i386/nic-extra-modules
> of the debian-installer CVS module, also at alioth.
>
> IIRC the nic-etra-modules floppy has to be loaded
> addtionally.
Just for the record I'm not using floppies on this
laptop (Did I mentionned it was a laptop ?).
Also when using beta2 it works better. The first
hardware detection fails to load the eepro100 module,
but after I mount the CD and load the installer
module, there is another hardware detection that loads
the eepro100 module.
So I'm not totally clear how this should work, but as
far as I understand, when I mount the CD and load the
installer modules, it should load this
nic-extra-module that you are talking about and find
the eepro100 module afterward. And if I'm correct the
user is not given the option to choose this particular
module.
So either something change since beta2 that doesnt
load this module this nic-extra-module ot I'm doing
something differently that make it not load...
> BTW, you can run lspci on a installed computer.
I cant run it on the failed installation. Maybe that
should be another bug.
> I belief in education of users, telling them
> they are flooding the people that they are asking
> for help or a fix.
Well, I'm not asking for help.
I see it the other way: Debian people are asking
install report to help debug. I could have taken any
stable CD image to install debian, but instead I
choose to try to help out, in my very small way, by
trying out a daily build. Sorry if this was more harm
than help.
And I dont think I'm flooding. I think its a good
practice to report logs with bug reports. I guess
there is a matter of how much is too much, but the
threshold is a matter of opinion or policy, and my
personnal opinion is that 100K is OK. I'll redo the
same anytime unless there is a policy that says who
much is too much.
But of course I probably wont anytime soon since I
finally installed Debian from a beta2 snapshot.
-- Thanks
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