Bug#783304: debian-installer: Autoinstall fails waiting on realtek 8169 firmware despite having working wired network connection

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20150422
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

Selecting auto install: hangs waiting for firmware, same hardware works fine if expert install used
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

System is zotac zbox id-6 - normally requires radeon, realtek, wifi firmware.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information