Bug#394744: Package: installation-reports

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

reopen 394744
retitle 394744 provide a hint when unsupport hardware is detected
severity 394744 wishlist
thanks

Op 23-10-2006 om 07:08 schreef Andreas Tille:
> The additional hint I wanted to give is that there should be some easily
> detectable information for newbies if something like that happens.
> 
> I would think the following would be helpful (for instance in the case of
> a not detected NIC):
> 
>   Your computer contains a network card `output of lspci | grep Ethernet`
>   This is card seems not to be supported by the current installation kernel
>   of Debian GNU/Linux.  (Don't know whether this is a reasonable guess
>   because there might be other types of failure.)
> 
>   You might try to ask your favourite Search Engine to browse the internet
>   for "Debian Linux `string from above`" or ask debian-user for further 
>   help.
> 
> The problem is that I wanted to demonstrate a newbie how easy it is to
> install Debian on his fresh box, but failed and there was no clue given
> what to do next.  I do not want to blame the installer for failing where it
> has no chance to success but we could try to give at least some information
> how to proceed now.  I admit I have not read the installation manual and
> perhaps some information is given there.  But even then my suggestion
> above should be turned into: Please read installation manual topic
> "Trouble shooting (or whatever)".
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.


Your wish is now again in the bug tracking system.


Cheers
Geert Stappers