Bug#980777: FIT-PC: Fails to find driver for Ethernet, Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:28:26 +0100
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On 1/24/21 4:50 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > OK. This might be a bug in the i386 iso - as you've seen, we can't
> > test all i386 easily. This might just be a regression. Given that
> > we're about to release 10.8 on Feb 6th, can I suggest that you send
> > a mail into debian-boot (or debian cd) referencing the bug number
> > and including the syslog entries above.  
> 
> FWIW, I recently installed the 10.7 i386 non-free netinst ISO on an
> old JVC sub-notebook with a Pentium M CPU and Realtek 8139 ethernet
> card and had no issues with that card during installation.
> 
> What actually caused problems was establishing a WiFi connection
> during installation with the Intel 2200BG wireless adapter - which is
> why I used the ethernet network connection during install.
> 
> After installation, everything worked correctly out of the box,
> however (lspci below).

Thanks for the report.

I hit a similar situation with a Thinkpad R51. Same WiFi, different
Ethernet NIC. See below. Even with the firmware-ipw2x00 package, I
could not get a connection during installation either.

We seem to have the same version of the Realtek (rev 10).

Did you end up using firmware for the Realtek? There has been some
question on that in the course of this bug.


02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)


Your report and some other things I have seen lead me to wonder if I am
simply running out of memory on the FIT-PC and d-i is not telling me. A
quick search of two syslogs didn't turn anything up.

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