On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 14:03 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > 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. Only the RTL8111D/RTL8168D chips currently require firmware patches. So either the title of this bug is wrong or Norbert is mistaken about firmware being loaded. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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