Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:40:45AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> clone 289016 -1
> retitle -1 Broadcom  Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet not detected
> reassign -1 discover1-data
> tags -1 patch
> thanks
> 
> 
> > 1) Installer didn't autodetect onboard TG3 NIC. When installer asked me to
> > specify manually what modules to load, I selected tg3, and the NIC was
> > detected just fine, and the installation from network using ftp worked well.
> 
> Yet another victim of the hardware vendors crazyness at inventing new
> models nearly daily. The PC hardware world just drives me crazy.
> 
> As you provided all the useful information for fixing this bu, I did
> the patch to the right package. Attached.
>

Seems to work now. I tried with netinst image from 18-01-2005.
 
> > 
> > 2) Locales-package asked what locales to generate, I selected a couple, but
> > they were not generated.. I had to run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and
> > re-select the locales to get them generated. This same bug was also in woody
> > installer.. I didn't select any tasks / package sets to install when I was
> > prompted for that.. if it might have something to do with this.  
> 
> This needs more investigation. I'm even wondering why the locales
> package prompted you about the locales to generate.
> 

I reinstalled today with netinst installer from 18-01-2005, and now I was
NOT prompted for locales to generate..

Hmm.. what's the correct behaviour? Should locales package ask and generate
the locales, or is it left for the user to run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" manually?

> What were your choices of language and country? fi and FI?
> 

I selected language English and Finland as Country.

> What was the debconf priority? Default (ie high) or medium?
>

Debconf priority was the default..
 
> What were the additional locales you selected?
> 

I selected a couple of en_US (with iso-8859-15 and utf8) and fi_FI (with
iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15, utf-8 and utf-8@euro)


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