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

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> I booted the squeeeze netinst again and after being prompted for the
> .cis file and inserting the vfat floppy, after a long hesitation, I saw
> some dhcp messages flash by and the green light on the dongle of my NIC
> came on.
> 
> I switched to a shell and proceeded to wget http://www.debian.org just
> to be on the safe side and that worked like a charm.
> 
> So I think that we now have evidence that the installer is able to
> initialize the NIC and bring up up the network, provided you have the
> .cis file somewhere on external media.
> 
> If it turns out that the .cis file cannot be packaged with the
> installer, a help button, or even precise info directly on the screen
> that prompts you to to load the .cis file would be worth considering.
> I've lived with this problem for a couple of years so I know what's
> going on, but this might not be the case for other users.

So, this bug is fixed and should be closed.


This leaves me with the question, if the firmware files from the
firmware-linux-free package could be contained in the installer isos.
I will file a new bug on this.


 
Holger

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