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Bug#243563: acknowledged by developer(fixed)



On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:45 -0500, Bob Smith wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > This is fixed in current daily builds
> 
> Well, I'm not sure I agree. I burned the daily builds of
> netinst and businesscard from:
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040413/
> 
> Both of them get to a screen titled "[!] Detect network hardware" 
> prompt, but now, instead of detecting my card, they ask me to choose:
> "Module needed by your ethernet card:"
> 
> This seems like a step back, to me.

I've think I've fixed this one now. You should get a message when the
package is uploaded, and then it should appear in the next daily build
or the one after that.

> Google says that my card should work with the hostap or orinoco 
> drivers. So I tried choosing each of {orinoco, orinoco_cs, 
> orinoco_pci, orinoco_plx}. None of them will get me past this screen.

No, you can't load modules for 16-bit PCMCIA cards manually.

> (At this point, I don't know if I'm still submitting a useful bug
> report, or if I'm just whining. Let me know if I should just sit back
> and wait for the release.)

Not at all, this bug report was very helpful.

-- 
Pelle



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