Package: installation Severity: normal
I am trying to do a net install of "etch" - testing - on a Dell Inspiron 7500 via a 3Com Megahertz LAN+56K pc card combo connected to a Motorola SBV5120 "surfboard" cable modem provided by Optimum Online. The installer seems to start PC card services successfully but then it does not recognize my Network Interface Card. As a result the network is not configured making installation impossible. -- System Information: Debian Release: etch -testing Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.12 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- Info regarding the hardware obtained from a sarge system running in another partition: $ cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 3CCFEM556", "LAN + 56k Modem", "" manfid: 0x0101, 0x0556 function: 0 (multifunction) Socket 1: product info: "KME ", "SCSI-CARD-001", "1" manfid: 0x0032, 0x2604 $ lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03) 0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03) 0000:00:04.0 0607: 104c:ac1c (rev 01) 0000:00:04.1 0607: 104c:ac1c (rev 01) 0000:00:07.0 0680: 8086:7110 (rev 02) 0000:00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01) 0000:00:07.2 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01) 0000:00:07.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02) 0000:00:08.0 0401: 125d:1978 (rev 10) 0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4c4d (rev 64) $ lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) 0000:00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01) 0000:00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev01) 0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) -- Additional remarks: 1. When the installer fails to recognize my NIC it displays a screen asking me whether I plan to connect via the firewire interface. Probably irrelevant since this laptop does not have any firewire port or capability 2. I was eventually able to workaround the problem after some complicated acrobatics that more or less amounted to loading the 3c574_cs module manually.. backing out to the main menu upon reaching the partitioner step, and running the "configure the network" step manually. At this point I "executed a shell" and ifconfig revealed that my NIC was correctly configured. I verified I was able to access inet url's by wget-ing a web page. 3. The workaround is not satisfactory since after reboot when I attempted to complete the installation (base-config program) eth0 was not configured (although visible when I did an ifconfig -a) and my attempts to bring it up manually ("ifup eth0" "ifupdown restart" "pcmcia restart" "dhclient".. ) were unsuccessful. 4. On the other hand it would seem that the hardware/pcmcia/cardbus etc. layer(s) are configured correctly since "cardctl info/ident/status" displays the usual expected output. 5. As far as I can tell lsmod reveals that the correct modules for yenta-socket.. pcmcia.. and the NIC itself have been loaded. 6. I have absolutely no clue what is causing this - hotplug maybe.. since I did not have it with the 2.4 kernel.. but since I still have this interrupted install available I could provide additional info (logs, config files..) and run tests at short notice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]