On Sun 05 Aug 2012 at 09:02:54 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > It look like the two "hangs" result from trying to find the firmware files > > iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode (for WiFi) and rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (for wired > > ethernet). This seems to be the same problem as in bugs #683690 and #683692. > > Do you have logs for this? The machine I used had no network cable attached. The intention was to test an installation over a wireless connection with WPA/PSK. I know that the USB wireless adapters I have require non-free firmware. The ethernet interfaces do not. At the 'Detect network hardware' stage the process hung and the d-i screen remained blue. Another machine behaved in a similar fashion but on a third the expected message about missing firware was displayed. This was puzzling until I realised this one had only two primary partitions whereas the other two had disks with primary and logical partitions. Taking a spare disk and creating four primary partitions on it lead to network hardware being detected. With an extended partition d-i did not return to the main menu. Sorry, I have no explantion for what is happening. It is perplexing because the alpha images do not exhibit this behaviour and the mountmedia and check-missing-firmware files do not appear to have changed in the beta image. I have attached one of the logs for an 'unsuccessful' install and the ps output when the failure takes place.
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