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Bug#611954: installation-reports: broken installation on RTL8111-8168B



On Fri, Feb  4, 2011 at 06:39:49 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:

> severity 611954 important
> reassign 611954 firmware-realtek
> thanks
> 
> Quoting Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at):
> > Package: installation-reports
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: squeeze
> > Justification: installation is impossible
> > 
> > latest installer and .iso netinst image (from today 2011-02-04)
> > firmware on the USB stick for the RTL (firmware-realtek, 0.28)
> > firmware loads fine
> > but dhcp is not working, no ip address
> 
> 
> We have seen other such issues. This probably belongs to the firmware
> itself....and given its non-freeness, has few chances to be fixed,
> except by Realtek..:-)
> 
There's no reason to think the firmware, rather than the driver, is at
fault, afaik.

Cheers,
Julien

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