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Bug#253033: installation-reports



On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:12:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Hmmm. That wasn't very successful. Netcfg loaded fine off the CD, but
>> only after I loaded it by hand. The 3c59x driver for the network card
>> in the test machine just didn't get loaded.
>> 
>> Looking at the *nic* .udebs on the image, they seem quite old (9th
>> May); is that normal?
>
>I don't know about the dates, if the nic-modules udeb is for the 2.4.26
>kernel and is version 0.62, then it's current.
>
>I think that the problem with netcfg is that it's not in
>.disk/udeb_include for these images; its priority does not cause it to
>be loaded by default, though we should revisit that since we seem to
>want it everywhere. Anyway, listing it, ethdetect, pcmcia-cs-udeb, and
>wireless-tools-udeb in .disk/udeb_include may fix that.

Cool. I'll try that now. There's nothing listed there atm:

sledge:/home/steve# less /mnt/.disk/udeb_include 
/mnt/.disk/udeb_include: No such file or directory

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