Bug#248636: debian-installer: No network is set up when no dhcp responds during installation
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
I Have some ibm-r40e laptops that uses a broadcom network card. The
network card is claimed to be supported by the TG3 driver but is not. THE
GPL driver from broadcom supports the card. In that machine I Also have
a Wlan pcmcia card, Cisco Aironet 350.
Im using the 110MB beta 4 installation CD.
During installation the installer tries to setup DHCP on the Broadcom
device, but fails, since the driver is broken. And since I'm going to
use dhcp when the installation is done, I dont set up static network. The
result is that /etc/network/interfaces is empty, with neither lo, nor
eth0 defined.
At least the loopback interface should be set up.
Also example lines for dhcp and or static interface should be set up.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-x300
Locale: LANG=no_NO, LC_CTYPE=no_NO
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