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Bug#405421: netcfg: Unknown IEEE 1394/FireWire interface reported as "Ethernet or Fast Ethernet"



Package: netcfg
Version: 1.32
Severity: normal

d-i detects my FireWire card, but doesn't recognize the model as lspci:

01:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev 04)

Instead, it reports it as "Ethernet or Fast Ethernet", which is
misleading.

Unless you want to implement a way to distinguish Ethernet and FireWire,
a simple fix would be to change 

Template: netcfg/internal-eth
Type: text
_Description: Ethernet or Fast Ethernet

for something like
[...]
_Description: Ethernet or IEEE 1394

I've experienced this on a single machine, but if I read netcfg-common.c
right, the bug should happen for all 1394 devices.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)



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