Bug#267302: installation report; net driver problem
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: August 20 daily build, 2.6 kernel netboot image,
from:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/2.6/
uname -a: Linux hyperprism 2.6.8.1 #4 Thu Aug 19 19:49:26 PDT 2004 i686
unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Date: Sat Aug 21 13:02:50 PDT 2004
Method: booted netboot image using grub from local tftp server, with following
grub commands (this was successful and the installer started fine):
ifconfig --address=my_address --server=tftp_server
root (nd)
kernel /tftp_dir/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384
initrd /tftp_dir/initrd.gz
boot
Would have done net install via ftp or http had the install reached that point
Machine: self-built machine
Processor: Pentium III 933 MHz
Memory: 512 mb
Root Device: IDE Western Digital 800JB on mainboard primary master
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 204 102784+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 205 2236 1024128 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 2237 22351 10137960 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 22352 155061 66885840 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2237 2541 153688+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2542 2643 51376+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2644 4675 1024096+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 4676 6098 717160+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 6099 22351 8191480+ 83 Linux
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev
03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev
03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43
(rev 30)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio
Controller] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04)
lspci -n:
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03)
00:07.0 Class 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
00:07.2 Class 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
00:07.3 Class 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02)
00:09.0 Class 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 30)
00:0b.0 Class 0401: 1073:0010 (rev 02)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 102b:0525 (rev 04)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [E]
Config network: [E]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
After adding ramdisk_size=16384 to the command line, installer loaded
correctly.
Ethernet card was recognized, but not functional. Although it was possible to
configure the interface, it could not communicate with the outside network
and the link light on the hub did not come on.
It is a DEC DE-500 card using the DC21143 chipset, and the installer chose the
tulip driver. The tulip driver has been broken with these cards for some
time; it is apparently a known kernel problem, but not much work has been
done to fix it because these cards are also supported with the de4x5 driver,
which works fine for me. Booting again with debconf/priority=low, and
loading de4x5 (and not loading tulip) manually, network was functional and
install proceeded normally.
de4x5 should probably be the default choice for 2114x cards (as opposed to
clones) until tulip is known to be fixed.
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