Bug#1123858: Asus X61S hangs around ethdetect
On 23/12/2025 at 16:05, Grzegorz Szymaszek wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 09:34:58AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
[…] You can try to blacklist either module by adding
module_blacklist=sis190
Debian (regular) Installer hangs with "Menu item 'ethdetect' selected"
being the last log line printed.
or module_blacklist=ath9k to the kernel command line […]
Installation almost finished:
So ath9k seems to be the culprit.
it hang when collecting installation
information (or something like that).
Was the installer totally dead or was it still possible to switch
between consoles and check logs ?
I can boot the installed system
(and even login to GNOME) but there are some issues:
- I cannot boot without module_blacklist=ath9k,
If you appended the parameter after "---", the installer should have
automatically added it to GRUB menu entry kernel command line.
In your previous mail lspci shows that ath9k was in use for the wireless
controller when booting Kali in fail-safe mode. Which kernel parameters
does it add, maybe some pci or iommu option ?
- start-stop-daemon is not in PATH (there is start-stop-daemon.REAL),
This is probably because the last installation steps were not performed.
- ifupdown configuration of the Ethernet interface was not disabled (it
normally is when I keep GNOME selected in Debian Installer), so
NetworkManager considered it unmanaged,
This is for sure because the last installation steps were not performed.
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