Bug#488146: installation-reports: d-i daily 20080626 amd64 fails to detect bcm5708 gb ethernet on dell 6950 (reinstall)

[Dennis Boone <drb@msu.edu>]

Subject: installation-reports: d-i daily 20080626 amd64 fails to detect bcm5708 gb ethernet on dell 6950 (reinstall)
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

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-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 2008-06-26 04:57

Machine: Dell PE6950
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [E]
Configure network:      [ ]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>

The network detection phase reports no adapters found, presents manual
selection menu.  Manually loading the assorted Broadcom options listed
there doesn't help.  Using a debug console to issue the modprobe
commands produces no errors, but doesn't help: no additional messages
appear in dmesg output, still no adapter detected.

lspci shows two interfaces (retyped):

07:00.0 Ethernet controller Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)

08:0d.0 Ethernet controller Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)

This is a re-install of this hardware, which was previously running i386
etch.

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