Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i squeeze Hi,
this is a regression from 6.0.2.1 to 6.0.3.
The IBM HS12 blade server has a Broadcom network chip:
04:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme 5714S
Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1669] (rev a3)
04:04.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme 5714S
Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1669] (rev a3)
when one tries to install squeeze 6.0.3 amd64 from the netinstall CD
or via network boot, the network interface doesn't do DHCP in the
installer ("Network autoconfiguration failed").
Via tcpdump, the DHCP server sees the DHCPDISCOVER sent out by the
blade, responds with DHCPOFFER, but never sees a DHCPREQUEST.
When I manually configure an IP address and ping the blade from the
LAN, the pinging machine never sees the blade replying. When I ping
from the blade to somewhere on the LAN, the remote machine sees the
echo request, sends out an echo reply, but the blade does not see the
reply.
Manually running modprobe -r tg3, modprobe tg3 on a shell allows the
installation to continue. The squeeze OS installed by the installer
has working network immediaely.
With a 6.0.2.1 amd64 netinstall CD, things are just fine.
dmesg and syslog from the installer are attached.
Greetings
Marc
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