Bug#512546: Fw: Re: installation-reports: Ethernet card not found: bug still valid?

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:24:52 +0200
From: Klaus Stein <steink@istik.de>
To: Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>
Subject: Re: installation-reports: Ethernet card not found: bug still valid?


Holger Wansing wrote at 26.08.2010, 13:43:58 (+0200):
> [Bug report about not supported ethernet card due to e1000e kernel
> module (Intel 82567LM-3)]
> 
> could you please try if this problem still exists in actual
> d-i daily build from
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> (jump to "daily built images" on that page).
> 
> The problems reported all reference to a kernel from Debian lenny
> or pre-lenny (2.6.26, .27), now we actually have 2.6.32 in 
> debian-installer.
> I think there's a good chance that this problem ist fixed now.

I currently do not have the time to do a complete install but upgrading to a
newer kernel fixed the problem for me, and the card works with any newer
kernel from debian-backports, so this should be fixed. 2.6.32 works fine.

$ uname -a
Linux comet 2.6.32-bpo.4-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Apr 12 20:15:01 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux


Thanks a lot for your work!

Greetings from Bamberg,
Klaus

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