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Bug#308210: marked as done (debian-installer: network modules not loaded in amd64‰ sarge install CD)

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: important


While trying to install debian on an AMD64 box, Debian installer wasn't able to identify the network card.
The board is an MSI K8N Neo4 with a nForce4 chipset and a Marvell 88E1111 ethernet (forcedeth driver).

I used sarge-amd64-netinst.iso dated 29-Apr-2005 18:26 found
http://mirror.ohiolinux.net/pub/mirrors/alioth-amd64/install-images/

The network wasn't picked up. I don't know exactly why. There were some warning in syslog due to some Packages 
not found by cdrom-resolver but I am not sure if the issue was due to that.

I recall that 2-3 modules couldn't be loaded (ide-cd, ...)

Kernel was 2.6.8 generic amd64 (if I recall)

I found out that many drivers were missing in /lib/modules even though /proc/config.gz listed expected 
information.

I solved the problem by udpkg'ing the nic-modules package from /cdrom/pool/l/...debian-installer...
and 'depmod -a' then 'modprobe forcedeth'.

I am reporting this issue from another desktop, so the System Information below is not meaningful.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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I'm closing this bug because I have not heard of any problems with the
installer detecting forcedeth cards lately.

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see shy jo

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