Bug#352758: -- installation: "etch" installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC
Hi,
Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
Ah, you are right, of course. I didn't saw that the comment I mentioned was
from you yourself. Somehow I thought it was from someone else.
> > 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.
As wrote above, you didn't miss anything, and you had was no problem with
the bug reporting system.
If someone writes a comment to your bugreport (writes a mail to
352758@bugs.debian.org), as subscriber you normally get a copy of this
comment.
So, you should not miss any information on this bugreport.
To investigate, if this problem still exists in the recent installer and
to help fixing it (if it still exists), you could try a daily build of
the installer for squeeze:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
(You don't need to do a full installation, just start the installer and
go through the process until the step where network hardware is detected.
No harm to your harddrive will happen, if you stop the installation process
when it comes to partitioning the disk.)
Holger
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