Ethernet not working in sarge. Have I done enough?
I've been trying to net-install sarge using the new installer.
The install worked, in the sense that I now have useless but otherwise
working sarge system.
The trouble is that is seems to be unable to communicate with my ethernet
card, a Realtek RTL-8139, for which it has installed the 8139too
module. I get the messages, repeated many many times:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ifconfig, route, etc., all tell me things are just fine, just like
on the working woody system. I used diff on their outputs to confirm
that they really don't have significant differences.
The interrupt address of the realtek card differed, but isn't that
allocated dynamically by plug&play anyway?
It shouldn't be a hardware problem, because everything still
works under the woody system I still have in another partition
on the same machine.
(a) Does anyone have an idea know what else needs to be done
to get it to work?
(b) I sent extensive installation reports about these failed
installs -- bug#261745 for beta 4, and bug#262070 for daily
build 20040727. Is that enough? Or are these just accumulated
statistically and do I need to lodge some other kind of report
somewhere? I do find it hard to imagine anyone reading all these
installation reports and still having time to get any real
debugging done!
-- hendrik@pooq.com
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