Bug#434588: installation-reports : problem configuring network

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Wednesday 25 July 2007 02:28, Matthew Lennig wrote:
> Image version: Debian Lenny amd64 netinst downloaded on 16-July-2007

I assume you used an official image for Etch?

> Comments/Problems:
> I'm trying to installing the Debian Lenny AMD64 netinst on an Asus
> A8V-MX motherboard with an integrated Realtek RTL8201CL 10/100
> ethernet controller. The Debian installer is able to detect the
> network device but it is unable to configure the network.

Although this is unlikely to be an installer problem, we can try to narrow 
it down somewhat before reassigning the issue.

There are two options:
- the kernel driver is just plain broken; in that case an update to a
  more recent kernel may fix the issue
- the driver needs additional firmware, which currently is just not
  supported in the installer

If I google for your NIC, it seems likely that the first option is the 
correct one as there are also reports of problems for other 
distributions. Could you try a daily built image [1] (will install Lenny) 
to see if the network works with that?

Please also provide the output of "lspci -nn'.