Bug#394050: installation-reports

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 07:41, Luis Echevarria wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Could not set up DHCP networking. So I aborted the install since it was
> a network install.

> relevant part of lspci
> 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
> relevant portion of lspci -n
> 00:14.0 0680: 10de:0269 (rev a3)

The kernel should be loading the forcedeth driver for it.
Could you boot the installer again and, when DHCP fails, switch to VT2:
- check if the driver is loaded ('lsmod')
- check with 'dmesg' if the NIC was correctly initialized (no error
  messages where it is recognized)
- check if the interface is up with 'ifconfig'
- see if you can get a lease by running 'dhclient' manually

Cheers,
FJP