Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?
On 11/1/19, Kent Dorfman <kent.dorfman766@gmail.com> wrote:
> title says it all.
> Would be nice if the netinstall actually worked so that I could better
> evaluate whether to take debian seriously.
>
a couple of points going forward:
1) I do not sign up on every list where I need support. If I did, I'd
be losing passwords for over 1000 support forums. I generally only
post on forums that don't require signup to post. So, for me to be
"involved" in the thread either the respondents need to CC me, or the
list itself needs to add my email address to the responses.
2) we are talking about 10 TESTING-edu, not stable nor unstable.
3) we are discussing the "netinstall" copies such as this one in particular.
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-edu-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
previous "daily-build and blue-ray images also fail in the same fashion.
4) I don't use DHCP in my network(s), except on VLAN isolated R&D
networks. I statically assign network setup info and should expect to
have that option during installation, right?
5) I do use "advanced installation" options
6) I've checked several different ways and in the USB ISO image initrd
there exists NO e1000 nor e1000e ehternet drivers.
7) the kernel image being used on the "testing" images is 5.2.x, not 4.x
8) days is cannot find kernel drivers, nor can it detect network
hardware at the appropriate stages of the installation dialog.
9) checked the contents of the USB installation ISO both by loop
mounting it and inspecting its contents, and via a shell during the
installation process. The needed ehternet driver is not in the initrd
image.
Whoever packaged the "testing" daily releases is NOT building an image
to support ethernet other than this one:
filename:
/home/home/debian-image/lib/modules/5.2.0-3-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/./cnic.ko
version: 2.5.22
license: GPL
description: QLogic cnic Driver
author: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> and John(Zongxi)
Chen (zongxi@broadcom.com
srcversion: 2462287F233247949C4CBC9
depends: uio
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: cnic
vermagic: 5.2.0-3-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
sig_id: PKCS#7
signer:
sig_key:
sig_hashalgo: md4
Clear as mud now?
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