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Bug#316806: marked as done (install mostly worked, but no DHCP, and confusing "kernel modules not enabled" message)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:00 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #316806
has caused the Debian Bug report #316806,
regarding install mostly worked, but no DHCP, and confusing "kernel modules not enabled" message
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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: sarge 3.1 rev0a (downloaded via bittorrent,
June 29, 2005)
uname -a: Linux fuzzy 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: July 3, 2005, 7:35pm EST
Method: installed from CD-ROM binary-1

Machine: Dell Inspiron 8100
Processor: Pentium III
Memory: 256 M
Root Device: IDE, hda: FUJITSU MHT2030AT, ATA DISK drive
Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1493    11992491    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2            1494        1558      522112+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3            1559        3648    16787925   83  Linux

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge
and Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11
[GeForce2 Go] (rev b2)
0000:02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S
Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)
0000:02:06.0 PCI bridge: Actiontec Electronics Inc Mini-PCI bridge (rev 11)
0000:02:0f.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus
Controller
0000:02:0f.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus
Controller
0000:02:0f.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394
Controller
0000:08:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
100] (rev 08)
0000:08:08.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics
WinModem 56k (rev 01)

lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:1130 (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:1131 (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:244c (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244a (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0112 (rev b2)
0000:02:03.0 0401: 125d:1998 (rev 10)
0000:02:06.0 0604: 1668:0100 (rev 11)
0000:02:0f.0 0607: 104c:ac42
0000:02:0f.1 0607: 104c:ac42
0000:02:0f.2 0c00: 104c:8027
0000:08:04.0 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 08)
0000:08:08.0 0780: 11c1:0448 (rev 01)

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

Initial boot worked:    [ O]
Configure network HW:   [O ]
Config network:         [ E]
Detect CD:              [ O]
Load installer modules: [O ]
Detect hard drives:     [ O]
Partition hard drives:  [ O]
Create file systems:    [ O]
Mount partitions:       [ O]
Install base system:    [ O]
Install boot loader:    [ O]
Reboot:                 [ O]

Comments/Problems:

I chose expert26 at the initial boot prompt.

This machine has built-in ethernet (correctly detected, it seems) and
a wireless PCMCIA card (correctly detected, at least during the first
half of the install).  I use the wireless card, and I pretty much
never use the built-in one any more.  So I figured I'd use the
wireless card during the installation.

It was correctly detected, and the first part of the install was
clearly talking to the DHCP server.  The installer offered me the
hostname dhcp-2, which I changed to fuzzy.  It offered me the domain
name unseen.edu (which is how I know it was talking to the DHCP
server); this time, I kept it (though it is bogus), but on previous
tries, I had changed it to nothing.  (I mean, of course, that I made
it blank; I did not type "nothing" into that space.)  These settings
did not seem to make a difference.

I went through partitioning (since I also have Windows XP installed),
I installed GRUB, and then I rebooted.  After the reboot, there was no
network.  I went ahead with the install anyway, because I had packages
on the CD-ROM.

I guessed at the monitor settings; I have an nvidia card, so I
followed the "don't try to auto-detect monitor information" advice. 
It worked out OK, but not great.  (The picture is good, but there's a
black border around the edges.)  I'm willing to believe that I'm
mis-remembering the resolution I get under Windows, and I'll try this
part again later.

I also noticed some module-loading error messages.  As a result, I
read /var/log/messages, and, like many before me with the 2.6 kernel,
I saw the confusing message: "No module symbols loaded - kernel
modules not enabled."  Well, clearly modules are enabled; lsmod lists
a bunch of them.

Anyway, back to the network: I looked in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, and
found the tell-tale line: DHCP="n"

I changed it to DHCP="y" and rebooted, and now I'm sending you this
message!  If I'd known it would be so easy, I wouldn't have tried
installing with so many different host and domain name choices.  So it
goes, I guess.  My next step will be apt-setup, or some other method
of getting appropriate lines into my sources.list.

To be fair, /etc/network/interfaces does have a line for eth1, and it
does specify dhcp.  So maybe I wasn't supposed to need the DHCP="y" in
network.opts.  But it wasn't working before I made the change, and now
it is (as eth2).

In happier news, I plugged in my USB stick (on an install from earlier
today), and it just worked.  I imagine the same will be true for this
install.  Likewise, it recognized my PDA; I didn't try pilot-xfer, not
having installed it, but I have high hopes.

I've left out details like choosing the 686 kernel over the 386 one
(which I had tried, with the same results, in non-expert 2.6 mode),
changing the paper size from a4 to letter, etc.  This message is long
enough as it is, but I felt I should mention that I haven't mentioned
everything.  :)

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
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the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
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