<obvious>
Things happen in a chronological order (with emphasis on logical )
Stories are most clear when told chronological
(that order even allows, when in a hurry, to skip to the last page,
to find out how the story ends)
English text is read (and written) from left to right
and from top to bottom
</obvious>
In other words: Reply below the text.
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:27:10AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote
in a different order:
> Please, I'm only am installing every so often to help test the new
> installer. I hope that doesn't make you mad at me if I report something
> went wrong.
<emotional>
Smile! No worries.
Reports are about that something went wrong.
So keep sending reports, it says what needs repair. [1]
<personal>
If you think someone goes mad, then ask what makes him/her mad
You might find out that the other end is not mad.
</personal>
</emotional>
<note to="myself">
Replying to an E-mail is better, then ignoring it.
Keep considering that a well intended reply can be recieved as offensive.
</note>
> >I think there is a network controller detected.
> >Please tell more about the hardware you are using.
> >And why you conclude that the Ethernet Card is not detected.
> Greet,
> Notice I said the card was already detected before. I have had
> unstable on this laptop for months now. I am trying to help test your
> installer since that is what you guys claim you would like. Of course my
> info looks like it detected my card for I sent lspci results from a previous
> install in case it would help.
> The bug is the fact that one day the installer detects the card and the
> next day it doesn't. The installer a couple weeks ago installed sid just
> fine, but yesterday it wouldn't detect the card. Something seems to have
> changed. I thought reporting that would help you guys.
> The hardware I am running can be found at
>
> http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/toshiba_satellite_a105-s4004_notebook.html
Yes, we like feedback. The best proof of that we care about the
feedback, is that we do a follow-up on it.
So the laptop does have an onboard NIC and also an onboard wireless NIC.
From the previous postings to this bugreport can be concluded
that PCI card 0000:07:08.0 contains the Ethernet controller.
Please provide the output of
lspci -n -s 07:08.0
lspci -vv -s 07:08.0
Do that test with the lspci command in the installer.
Because it uses the same kernel as the failing installer.
From the original posting to this bugreport I did not read
that the computer does work with other versions of Debian (installer)
Things that did change in debian-installer is the kernel version.
The 'dmesg output' does say that the NIC is detected.
The reporter says that the NIC is not detected.
<guessing>
The "PHY driver" for the laptop NIC is changed.
</guessing>
Please bring the laptop to a state where it has a (detected and) working
networking connection[2] and do a kernel upgrade.
When the problem occures after the reboot (with the upgraded kernel)
then we know that it is a kernel issue.
Another thing I would to known is how the debian-installer behaves when
the Network Interface Card is not detected. What is shown to the user?
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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