Re: Bug#352758 -- installation: "etch" installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

[Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:07:08PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I reported Bug #352758 -- installation: "etch" installer fails to
> > detect/configure PC card NIC -- c. four years ago and was wondering if
> > there were any new developments.
> 
> A comment to this bugreport told you, that this is a firmware issue.

Sorry, I have little familiarity with the bug reporting system and I did
no see this comment. Where can read the comments?

I don't see any comments at:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352758

All I see are my two entries.

> Support for loading firmware during installation was added to the
> lenny installer.

> Please try the lenny installer.

I have been running lenny for a couple of years, and am in the process
of assessing Squeeze prior to switching. 

Since I usually upgrade by cloning the current stable to another
partition and running a dist-upgrade, I was not aware of this change.

Being unfamiliar with the bug reporting system, and not seeing anything
on the above-mentioned page, I mistakenly assumed that the problem had
not been corrected, especially since it is still present in fairly
recent distributions and live CD's that are based on debian.

All apologies for the confusion and please let me know where in the
debian manuals I can find a description of the debian bug tracking
system in order to avoid such problems in the future.

Thank you,

CJ